One of the things that is missing in this discussion are real concrete use-cases.
The main one that I have had to contend with is: Assumption 1: VCS does no line ending conversion. Assumption 2: Line endings in repository are all "correct" per the project's conventions Assumption 3: All editors in use by developers can correctly handle non-native (to their workstation) line endings Step 1: User makes minor modification to workspace file Step 2: User XYZ *unwittingly* saves/commits a file with a different line ending than the previous revision. Step 3: Monotone now thinks that every line in the file has changed. Diff & merges break. In my experience this use case accounts for 90% of "line ending problems". Unless the file happens to be a unix shell script (in which case it might not run with modified line endings), it is more of an annoyance than anything else. So if *nothing* was done to address the problem, I wouldn't miss the lack of functionality. It would, however be *nice* if monotone could have warned the user at step #2 that he was doing something that might be a mistake. Thoughts? I know some people have different requirements where when I file is checked out, it must exist with line-endings that are native to the client workstation. However, I have never encountered this usecase, so perhaps someone can comment. RS On 11/27/06, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:47:30 +0100, Ulf Ochsenfahrt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: ulf> That's easy: ulf> Noone who doesn't use a sane editor gets write access to my repository! ulf> ulf> Other things would be nice though, for example if montone would check ulf> that the files you try to commit have the correct (project specified) ulf> line endings, with an error message such as: "project specified" says it all, doesn't it. Yes, I understand that you meant it as a joke, but in all seriousness, that's still the problem that we're discussing (unless you wish the discussion to be dropped entirely, which is what's happened before, and is a sure guarantee that the same discussion will start over in a few months!). 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
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