Re: line-ending conversion and keyword substitution

At 07:13 PM 12/12/01 -0500, Greg Hudson wrote:
> 1. It's simpler.

I guess.

But I like the cleaness of allowing a client the ability to optionally
change files any way it wants as they go from the repository into the
working copy, because it can guarantee that the alterations will be removed
before the files return to the repository. It keeps local things local.

Does your project have UTF8 files but you prefer tools that talk UTF16? No
problem so long as your client supports it. You can have UTF16 and not
screw up everyone else. Want to run a transform on an XML file? Nothing to
stop you, provided the conversion can go both ways.

Not part of the Subversion core, of course, but if line endings are already
done that way then custom changes should be able to take advantage of the
infrastructure.

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:52 2006