Re: Forcing svn:eol-style=native on files with "binary" mime types?

On 25.09.2005 16:00, Marc Sherman wrote:

>> And frankly, in this context, "diffable but not mergeable" is
>> nonsense. Later on, when diff/merge plugins can better discriminate
>> the file types, this issue (if it actually is an issue) will go away.
>
>
> I've got a counter-example that you may consider bogus: Visual Studio's
> installer project files (*.vdproj) are machine-generated XML.

Right - and this kind of situation is somewhat common. Whenever you have
  text files that have complicated internal structure and are generated
by some program, then it's quite natural to want them to be diffable,
but not mergeable.

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