Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Bug in CRLF conversions

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:50:51 -0500, Yury Polyanskiy 
<address@hidden> said:

yura_pol> On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 13:59 +0000, Bruce Stephens wrote:
yura_pol> > I can believe that's true of some text files.  But for (to
yura_pol> > take a random example) C++ source files, it's surely not
yura_pol> > true, is it?
yura_pol> 
yura_pol> That's the problem with current approach: it only takes
yura_pol> C/C++ sources into account.

I've a different opinion: it takes normal text files into account.
You know, line of text followed by a line end followed by a line of
text followed by a line end...

Everything that has been used as argument against that simple
principle of what a text file is are really special cases for very
special purposes, where some characters have been inserted for layout
purposes.  I honestly am not really sure if those should be regarded
as normal text files or as something as binary as a Word file.

But OK, say we do the very simply transformation, using only the
second item returned by get_linesep_conv, we still have a much bigger
thing to deal with: how to make monotone understand when NOT to do
that.

Cheers,
Richard

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