# The Great Newline Schism

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**Created:** [January 18, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/the-great-newline-schism/123 "2010-01-18T00:00:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chris\_mahan](https://discourse-cdn.codinghorror.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@Chris\_mahan](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/u/Chris_mahan)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/the-great-newline-schism/123/7 "2010-02-16T00:00:00Z")

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I was reminded of something that is still being hammered out: the move of the Python programming language development to mercurial vcs. One of the problems is that mercurial, being distributed, allows developers to check-in code on their local machine, using a variety of line ending. This seems to cause a lot of grief… See

[http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-July/090330.html](http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-July/090330.html)

So, great post!

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