Re: Poll: do we really need newline conversion?

"Bill Tutt" <rassilon@lyra.org> writes:
> As an additional point: With the EOL conversions, and per-file EOL
> styles I could ensure that my data (.dsp files) were correctly
> maintained. How does not doing any EOL conversion prevent somebody from
> committing a bogusly formatted update?
>
> i.e. You're loosing some data integrity guarantees on text files which
> is kind of a bummer.

That's true -- there are all sorts of application-specific data
integrity guarantees that would be helpful.

We're also not preventing commits of uncompilable C code. :-)

-K

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:52 2006