[Monotone-devel] Re: line endings with 0.31

[Graydon Hoare]

Nathaniel Smith wrote:

> The get_linesep_conv hook is passed the filename, it can do whatever
> it likes with it.  E.g.,
>   function get_linesep_conv(filename)
>     if regex.search("\\.jpe?g$", filename) then
>       return {"LF", "LF"}
>     end
>     return {"LF", "CRLF"}
>   end

Woah! Did we really leave it like this? That's terrible. We added an 
attribute to files called mtn:manual_merge that controls whether the 
merger believes it can do line-merging on the file or whether the file 
should be treated as binary. Can't we assume that mtn:manual_merge 
implies "don't do the linesep / charset conversion on i/o"? Or can we 
rephrase the attribute as mtn:blob, or such? Users should not have to 
muck about with this linesep conversion function stuff, if possible.

-graydon