Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Dirkjan Ochtman writes: > > > [Clients] cannot be trusted (e.g. I might put a win32text stub in > > there somewhere that does nothing). > > Heck, just edit the .hgrules file, and do a Houdini on any and all > handcuffs. > > Don't trust software, trust people -- but help them avoid thoughtless > mistakes.
Yes, on the client side we're not trying to prevent someone doing the wrong thing deliberately - just nudging them towards doing the right thing so they won't run afoul of the server side checks that will actually *enforce* the line ending rules for the main repository. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
