Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: line endings as project policy

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:59:13PM +0100, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> And yet, we're still speaking about systems where the only difference
> is a character or two.  On a record oriented filesystem, you MUST
> convert text files to actual separate records (lines), or anything
> that deals with text (such as more or less all editors, all compilers,
> all diffing tools, all...  the list goes on) is basically rendered
> worthless.
> 
> I guess that monotone will stay on Unix/Windows/MacOS only.

Is this a serious issue in practice?  It seems like you could probably
get things to pretty much work well enough with some heuristics, and
the knowledge that you have to make some sacrifice to achieve
interoperability with the fundamentally different (and more prevalent)
stream-of-bytes style...

I mean, what do, say, web browsers and sftp clients and stuff do?

-- Nathaniel

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