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

[Thomas Moschny]

Quoting Matthew Hannigan:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 07:50:51AM -0500, Yury Polyanskiy wrote:
> > Again: solution is trivial. "Transform what I ask you to (LF->CRLF and
> > back) and don't mess with anything special (like CR->CRLF etc)."
>
> The other nice thing about this is that it's perfectly
> reversible, even for 'binary' files.

But what, if my binary contains an LF somewhere? After a check-in-check-out 
cycle, I will see this replaced with CRLF, won't I?

> On a slightly different note, perhaps it would be best
> for monotone to store the literal version and only transform
> for the purposes of diffing or checksumming/sigs.

Or *upon request* into native style in my working copy only; and warn me about 
inconsistent line-endings then.

Thomas