Re: line ending summary: the "Breg Hudtherton Proposal"

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 04:21:41PM -0500, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Thu, 2001-12-13 at 15:57, Greg Stein wrote:
> > The commit email scripts are running on the server only. It would be
> > comparing two repository versions. Thus, you get huge diffs.
>
> They work against the FS? That's an issue we'd have to address, then.

Yep. They use the "svnlook" program which reaches into the FS.

> (It will be a similar issue for keywords, unless we decide to

Most likely, yes.

>...
> Here is a survey of how various schemes stumble over the multiple access

Ah. This is *very* helpful. Although the unqualified "Greg's scheme" threw
me for a bit :-) (I was all, "I don't have a scheme; I like Bruce's!")

One comment:

>...
> * A new scheme which handles newline translation in the FS: works great,
> but significantly complicates the FS interface and implementation.

We could handle this at the "repos" layer before the FS ever sees it.

Cheers,
-g

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