RE: Greg Hudson's EOL system.

Hello everybody,

> 1. When the user commits a file, the *exact* contents of the working
> file is sent to the repository. (Yes, this means a lot of EOL
> flip-flopping in the repository, and larger-than-necessary binary
> diffs both over the wire and in the repo. But also means that
> data can never be corrupted, ever.)

EOL flip-flopping might even be "cheap" by making it a special case in the
diff algorithm if anybody cares enough about the wasted space. (By doing
some "flip EOL" operation in front of doing the real binary diff). But this
would be a pure performance issue, post-1.0 or post-2.0 or post-whenever.
Adding that special case probably is not worth it. I just wrote this to show
that considering the overhead is a non-issue for deciding something on the
EOL discussion. The overhead can be eliminated.

And further:

+1 for Greg's proposal if lurker-votes count

Back to lurk mode,
   Frohwalt Egerer

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:52 2006