Re: line-ending conversion and keyword substitution

On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 13:39, Bruce Atherton wrote:
> At 11:51 AM 12/13/2001 -0500, Greg Hudson wrote:
> >Yes, but in my scheme William doesn't lose his engine design. (It will
> >be corrupted on the next checkout, but it's still sitting there
> >uncorrupted in the repository.)
>
> Sure he does. He checked out a file that got corrupted on the way to him.

In some minor way which doesn't cause any damage. (I'm not saying all
corruption-on-checkout will be minor, of course, just that sometimes it
will be, and in those cases the user won't notice until Subversion has
already corrupted later work, possibly a lot of it.)

> He adds his engine design to the file and commits it, still corrupted.
> Eventually that corruption will bite him and he will lose all his work.

Are you actually envisioning a vector graphics program which saves data
by appending to the data file it loaded? Of course not; when William
saves his work the vector graphics program is going to write out a valid
data file, from scratch.

[Regarding the .dsp file case requiring an explicit CRLF style:]
> Is this really common enough you need Subversion to have built-in handling,
> rather than requiring the user to do the right thing?

> If it is then I guess I see the point of specifying a platform, but I
> remain skeptical.

I was skeptical too, but I don't think it's uncommon.

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:52 2006