Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Bug in CRLF conversions

[Zbynek Winkler]

Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:

> monotone> However, the basic idea seems sound: distinguish binary and
> monotone> text, and for text, assume (by default) native line-endings.
>
> Or any line ending.  It doesn't really matter because for text files,
> the line ending isn't really interesting in itself, it's just a layout
> indicator, saying "break the line here".  (I realised this yesterday,
> while discussing this issue)
>  
Let me disagree. An example where this is not true is python. It is not 
layout indicator, it says "this is the end of statement".

I think I like more the way mercurial does this - it does not convert 
anything by itself. But it allows you to specify "filters" (in/out) that 
are called to process the files on commit or checkout. I think it 
follows the principle of least surprise (by default *do not play with 
user data*).

Zbynek

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