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Re: Checking in files with trailing white space
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Checking in files with trailing white space |
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Tue, 13 Dec 2016 18:01:57 +0200 |
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 23:31:42 -0800
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> An example of trouble is test/manual/etags/f-src/entry.strange.gz. Instead of
> committing the gzipped file, I'd commit the original text file
> 'entry.strange',
> and compress a copy as part of the test.
But what about data files that cannot be easily produced from text on
any garden-variety system?
> To see an example problem when binary data is committed, visit this URL:
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> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=6db72771cc08e719a08f56db8abd7cefef9c8c99
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> Because that commit installed some Latin-1 text, the body of that web page
> contains a mixture of UTF-8 and Latin-1.
Sometimes this is necessary. We could, of course, recode the file
using Emacs, but only in most cases, not all of them. E.g., producing
a file with invalid bytes might not be easy at all.
And for other use cases, doing what you want might be next to
impossible, except if we write a C or Lisp program to generate the
data, something that might make the job significantly harder than just
grabbing a file.
So I think it would be good to avoid binary data when feasible, but I
won't make that a hard requirement. We don't want to make the job of
adding tests any harder than it already is.
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Alan Mackenzie, 2016/12/11
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2016/12/11
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Alan Mackenzie, 2016/12/12
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Paul Eggert, 2016/12/12
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/12
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Paul Eggert, 2016/12/13
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Paul Eggert, 2016/12/13
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/13
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Paul Eggert, 2016/12/13
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/13
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Paul Eggert, 2016/12/14
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/14
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Paul Eggert, 2016/12/14
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/14
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Alan Mackenzie, 2016/12/13
- Re: Checking in files with trailing white space, Paul Eggert, 2016/12/13