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Re: Poll: do we really need newline conversion?

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_newton.ch.collab.net>
Date: 2001-12-11 19:08:06 CET

Bill, that is one of the best posts I've seen all day. :-)

Completely agree with you -- we need to test the edge cases either
way.

-K

"Bill Tutt" <rassilon@lyra.org> writes:
> While I'm all for scenarios that don't allow .dsp/.dsw files to be
> munged, and this would definitely do it. +0.5
>
> If you're not going to do EOL conversions, then we need to ensure that
> different EOL scenarios don't break use cases. (They probably won't, but
> since this is such an important use case for end users, it's probably
> better to be overly paranoid here.)
>
> Possible test cases:
> * Unix EOL in SVN, DOS EOL in WC, and svn update
> * Unix EOL in SVN, DOS EOL in SVN, and then a server side merge occurs.
> Etc...
>
> Determine all of these edge cases, determine their desired outcome, and
> test for it. :)
>
> Doing the test case matrix would add an additional +0.5. ;)
>
> All in favor, but wary of unintended consequences,

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