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

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:22:06 +0100, rghetta 
<address@hidden> said:

birrachiara> Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
birrachiara> > The inspiration for .mt-autoprops comes from SVN, where
birrachiara> > such things can be configured.  They do it by
birrachiara> > extension, but I'm not sure we really should do it that
birrachiara> > way...  I've always been impressed by the simple magic
birrachiara> > of the Unix command 'file', but doing something like
birrachiara> > that is maybe a bit much to ask...  Ideas?
birrachiara> To me, this is somewhat a side issue, while having some
birrachiara> way to map a set of properties to a file is the real
birrachiara> problem.
birrachiara> Imho, to cover every situation you must use file
birrachiara> attributes. Only with these you can reliably handle
birrachiara> platform differences.

Absolutely!  I never meant that something like an autoprops file would
replace appropriate attributes, just that it would contain some kind
of default.

Cheers,
Richard

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