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Last Updated: 2024-11-21
When I began working on the Project M code, I just jumped in. This was a
mistake. When I changed even one word in a file, even a README, git would show
every line as having changed. This was because my editor made assumptions about
the formatting (e.g. whitespace at line ends) and encoding (unix vs.
windows) which were not true of the client (they were on windows, I was on unix)
Therefore I should have copied over their .editorconfig before starting. If
they didn't have one, I should have created one, such that committing would work
as expected.