Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes:
> > I think the big question is whether we can afford to allow multiple SVG
> > editor file formats to be checked in, and hence support git diff churn
> > as we switch SVG editors for commits.  This doesn't seem likely to
> > improve anytime soon so we should just decide and move forward.
> 
> > Perhaps we should allow any SVG file to be imported, but only allow
> > modifications by a single SVG editor.
> 
> How is that sensible?  The first change to the file will result in
> exactly the mass of cosmetic diffs that we wish to avoid.

I suggested this so we could get images into the docs and then only have
a single diff change once the file is modified.  If we don't do that
then all image additions have to be done by someone with the proper
editor.

> I think we probably have to specify the One True Graphics Editor, and
> maybe even specific version(s) of it, if we want to avoid unreadable
> diffs.  The reason we have not managed to come to a consensus yet is
> that people would prefer not to do that, but it's becoming obvious that
> there just isn't any way around it.

Yes.

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