Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: line endings with 0.31

[Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker]

In message <address@hidden> on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:57:20 +0000, Bruce Stephens 
<address@hidden> said:

monotone> Why is that so horrible?  That's what we'd do with CVS (or
monotone> subversion): fix up the setting (-kb, svn:eol-style, or
monotone> whatever), and commit the correct value.  Why shouldn't we
monotone> do the same with monotone?  That means that one revision's
monotone> broken, and there's a bigger delta than we might like, but
monotone> that seems acceptable.

Oh, I dunno, but I'm imagining how amusing it might be to redo a large
revision, with additions, drops and whatnot, just because one jpeg got
modified.  Thing is, you don't always discover that immediately, so at
the time it's discovered, that revision may have children and may have
been synced to other servers.  I can imagine the joy of the CEO of the
company that has a garbled logo on their web because of something like
this.  I sure would be majorly pissed!

And the way things are currently, such things can't be corrected with
a simple "fix up the setting".  And quite honestly, that didn't work
with CVS either on other platforms than Unix, because CVS also used LF
as internal line ending.  Forgetting -kb Windows when checking in a
binary that happened to have embedded CRLF was never a good thing, and
doing a 'cvs admin -kb' on the file afterwards didn't fix anything at
all, just sets the flag, but the file itself is still screwed up.

Cheers,
Richard

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