Re: Now 100% Serious Newline conversion suggestion

At 10:48 AM 12/13/2001 -0600, cmpilato@collab.net wrote:
>- newline styles in the repository change ONLY when it was
> intentional.

Covered.

>- we do the world a favor by promoting the use of tools that can
> understand (and not munge) files of various newline styles, while
> not punishing those who fail to use such tools.

I think I got this one, you'd have to be more specific.

>- no conversion takes place autometically, thus preserving my
> idealistic viewpoint that a VC system shouldn't be in the business
> of doing anything but versioning data.

I think this is exactly what my proposal suggests. From the point of view
of the Subversion server, there is no such thing as line endings (or
keywords for that matter), it is all client side. And a Subversion client
could very well choose not to implement any support for changes to line
endings or keyword tags, and it would still interact well with Subversion
and all other clients. You'd want these in the command line client because
they are such common requirements, but it wouldn't be required for other
clients.

If a client wants to support changing line endings to match the platform,
it needs to maintain the client-specific property line-ending-style on the
server, but the server doesn't need to know anything about the meaning of
the property.

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:53 2006