[yes, comment]: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/1631#issuecomment-1323966537

[zooba]

No impact on build - just to help keep the source tree cleaner.

[encukou]

Hi Steve,
AFAIK, these files also need other things that not all editors preserve:

• Windows-style newlines
• no final end-of-line character at the end of the file

Or is that a cargo-culting nowadays? (Asking you sounds be easier than spinning up buildbots.)
I can add a script to fix all these+encodings, and plug it into make regen-all (even though it's not really generation). If that sounds good, I'll open a new issue.

[zooba]

I don't think it needs to be plugged in anywhere, there haven't been any issues that I've noticed.

Mainly what happens is when people are working in VS, often when you build it's going to save the project file and show up in a git diff for whitespace changes.

Maybe patchcheck (does anyone still run that?) is the right place? Or .gitattributes might be capable enough?

[zooba]

But yes, they should still be UTF-8 BOM files with CRLF endings, as far as I'm aware. Windows is generally getting better at going "oh this is a POSIX developer, let's leave things their way for them", but I'm not sure if VS has caught up to that yet.