[Monotone-devel] Re: Line ending conversion

[graydon hoare]

Zbynek Winkler <zwin <at> users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> I am looking for an alternative to subversion's "svn:eol-style=native" - 
> a property used to mark files that should have the platform-native eol. 
> I've found the hook |get_linesep_conv| but that would require each and 
> every user separately determine and set the files. Is there anything 
> that can be added to the database to make the information about the 
> prefered eol-style for a file distribute in the same matter as the file 
> itself? Maybe some cert? Or something in .mt-attrs?

probably selecting behavior off of the "encoding" attribute (or a separate EOL
one, since this is a related-but-different aspect of the encoding), subject to
user override, will be ok. we need to try a few variations on the idea and
revisit this. if you'd like to enter a bug, I would like to make the results
both technically satisfactory and also "pleasant to use".

-graydon