[kbolino]

Up until just a few years ago, Notepad on Windows could not handle Unix-style line endings. It probably makes sense now to adopt the as-is convention, but for a while, it made more sense to convert when checking out, and then to prevent spurious diffs, convert back when committing.

[hnlmorg]

Line endings between windows and unix-like systems were so painful that when I started development on my shell scripting language, I wrote a bunch of code to all Linux to handle Windows files and visa versa.

Though this has nothing to do with FTP. I’d already abandoned that protocol by then.