>--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Thu, 17 Jun 2004, Feldmann, Rick wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 11:53:55 -0400 >> From: "Feldmann, Rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: 'Kaz Kylheku' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Cc: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: RE: cvs merging - conflict >> >> Kaz, >> >> Thanks for the reply. Nice explanation of the differences. As for white >> space, I'm not asking for the machine to blindly throw white space away, I'm >> asking for the ability to tell the machine to throw away white space. It >> doesn't even have to be the default, just an option. >The problem with that is that the project now has users who are >deciding to use an option. So from the configuration manager's point of >view, he has a machine (system + programmers) that is doing silly >things. :) >The whitespace truly has to not matter, no matter where it occurs. >In your case, you are dealing with XML, in which whitespace does >matter. Not everywhere, of course, but in some contexts, like the >data itself: ><foo> </foo> is different from <foo></foo> ><foo key="value "> is different from <foo key="value"> >There is no telling how such differences will affect some process that >uses that XML as input. All the more reason to provide a hook to insert a merge tool that is senstitive to the data type. But that's a different thread... >--- End of forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs