RE: RE: Re: Poll: do we really need newline conversion?

From: Bill Tutt [mailto:rassilon@lyra.org]

>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?

IF the styles are correctly set, you can guess they're right. If they
aren't, though, you're hosed. The only way you can know they're right is by
running a test on them.

If you promise they're never touched, though, you get the guarantee that if
someone hoses a file, it won't be the VCS system; it'll be the programmer
who changed the file.

>i.e. You're loosing some data integrity guarantees on text files which
>is kind of a bummer.

No, you're gaining a guarantee: the VCS system won't hose your files.

>Bill

-Billy

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:52 2006