line ending issue

Unlike CVS, there are other clients for accessing the content from our
repository. Any DAV client out there can retrieve content. Heck, any web
browser or wget or curl or Python httplib can grab content from our
repository.

In the CVS world, its clients were always present to always perform the
"proper" newline conversion.

In the SVN world, we do not have the luxury of a newline-converting client.
That has a very large impact on how we want to store things into the
repository. We want to store it such that some other Random Client can pull
it out with some semblance of Properness.

I think the concept of flip-flopping the endings within the repository isn't
a Good Thing. When an alternative client pulls a copy from one moment,
they're going to get an entirely different file.

Personally, I think there should be a canonical form within the repository.

I'm not sure what the fallout of that is, or where the design goes... I
haven't applied as much thought on the "whole problem" as some of the other
people in this thread :-)

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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