Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: the line-ending discussion

[Ethan Blanton]

Graydon Hoare spake unto us the following wisdom:
> Operations 1 and 2 are done by splitting or joining. The split and join 
> operations are governed by the following rules:
> 
>    - At first, monotone's default behavior will be to use the "native"
>      line-ending forms (only LF on unix, only CR on mac, only CRLF on
>      windows). If you are sharing your workspace between platforms on
>      NFS or SMB, you are out of luck. For now.
> 
>    - Once we have a mechanism for specifying project policies, it will
>      be a matter of project policy, and you can split and join lines
>      using whatever you want.
> 
> This is not what monotone does now, but I find it an agreeable road 
> forwards. Does anyone disagree?

This seems very reasonable to me.

Ethan

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