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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Encoding handling proposal
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Marcus Sundman |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Encoding handling proposal |
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Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:37:01 +0300 |
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On Monday 30 August 2004 00:18, Alexey N. Solofnenko wrote:
> There can be a much simpler approach:
> A) We still need a metedata (and, if it is mutable, it should be
> versioned).
> B) Text files can have optional encoding attribute (or during first
> import the attribute can be guessed by the system).
> C) All client computers have files exactly as in the repository.
> D) "smart" patch/diff/merge use the encoding attribute to correctly
> calculate differences between two files (of the same encoding!).
This is more or less how it would work with "Auto-Filter" set to "false" in
my proposal. (Except that in my proposal the encoding info was still
mandatory instead of optional.)
> Without changing content encoding on the fly it works without any
> problems. Maybe it is a good idea not to allow content encoding
> changing, because a file with new content encoding is essentially a new
> file, which can still look similar to the previous one.
I would argue that changing the content encoding makes a file a "new file"
if and only if the encoding is part of the semantics of said file.
- Marcus Sundman
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Encoding handling proposal, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Encoding handling proposal, John Meinel, 2004/08/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Encoding handling proposal, Marcus Sundman, 2004/08/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Encoding handling proposal, Charles Duffy, 2004/08/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Encoding handling proposal, Marcus Sundman, 2004/08/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Encoding handling proposal, Charles Duffy, 2004/08/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Encoding handling proposal, Marcus Sundman, 2004/08/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Encoding handling proposal, Charles Duffy, 2004/08/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Encoding handling proposal, Marcus Sundman, 2004/08/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Encoding handling proposal, Charles Duffy, 2004/08/30
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Encoding handling proposal, Alexey N. Solofnenko, 2004/08/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Encoding handling proposal,
Marcus Sundman <=
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Encoding handling proposal, David Allouche, 2004/08/30
[Gnu-arch-users] Re: Encoding handling proposal, Stefan Monnier, 2004/08/30
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Encoding handling proposal, Tom Lord, 2004/08/30