Re: Poll: do we really need newline conversion?

Billy Tanksley <btanksley@hifn.com> writes:
> Okay, here's a problem: if we're using patch, we'll have to know what the
> correct line endings are. Patch won't preserve them; it'll either use
> system-dependant or all-Unix line endings. We'll have to convert when patch
> is finished.
>
> An ideal patching program would use 'record endings' which were variable --
> so you could patch a file with some CRs, some LFs, and some CRLFs (and even
> some commas), and all would go well. But this isn't how the traditional
> patch program works, and of course there's no room for this in the diff
> format.

Yes -- this is a problem we will need to solve independently of
newline conversion (imagine you have a text file with newline
conversion turned off, and it gets patched).

So good point, though unrelated to this poll.

Could you file an issue about this?

   http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/enter_bug.cgi?issue_type=DEFECT&component=subversion

Thanks,
-Karl

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:52 2006