Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Line ending conversion

[Zbynek Winkler]

graydon hoare wrote:

> > 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, 
https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=13390

> I would like to make the results both technically satisfactory and also "pleasant to 
> use".
>  
Me too. I like the idea of "normalized storage form" that has only one 
type of EOL but that means that when adding the file we should somehow 
"guess" what normalization to perform. I think it might be related to 
the mime-type-discussion that was part of the "merge of binary 
files"-thread...? I am not certain what the conclusion was but we could 
have a hook to decide what to do with text/plain files that would 
default to the proper conversion depending on the platform where 
monotone is built/run.

Zbynek

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