In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:31:42 +0100, Zbynek Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
zwin> Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: zwin> zwin> >monotone> However, the basic idea seems sound: distinguish zwin> >monotone> binary and text, and for text, assume (by default) zwin> >monotone> native line-endings. zwin> > zwin> >Or any line ending. It doesn't really matter because for text zwin> >files, the line ending isn't really interesting in itself, it's zwin> >just a layout indicator, saying "break the line here". (I zwin> >realised this yesterday, while discussing this issue) zwin> > zwin> Let me disagree. An example where this is not true is python. It zwin> is not layout indicator, it says "this is the end of statement". That's a really bad example. Python uses the common property of a text file that there is an end to each line. Python makes no other requirement or just wouldn't work on Windows, where at least half if not all the python scripts have lines that end with CRLF rather than LF. zwin> I think I like more the way mercurial does this - it does not zwin> convert anything by itself. But it allows you to specify zwin> "filters" (in/out) that are called to process the files on zwin> commit or checkout. I think it follows the principle of least zwin> surprise (by default *do not play with user data*). I think it's time I take a look at hg to see how it does things. I hope it won't make me scream and hide... :-) Cheers, Richard ----- Please consider sponsoring my work on free software. See http://www.free.lp.se/sponsoring.html for details. -- Richard Levitte [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://richard.levitte.org/ "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." -- C.S. Lewis _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
