Re: Poll: do we really need newline conversion?

Karl Fogel <kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net> writes:

> Recently, some people posted asking whether Subversion should even
> bother to perform newline conversion.

[...]

> * Mike Pilato argues (convincingly, IMHO) that newline conversion
> is way outside the scope of a version control system anyway, that
> it's just a weird bit of creeping featurism that doesn't even
> provide something terribly useful anymore, and has the potential
> to damage data (since it's a departure from faithfully versioning
> whatever people checked in).

[...]

> Would like to know what other people think...

Well, I'm obviously +1. Call me a versioning purist, but...

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:52 2006