Re: Yet another line-end proposal (YALEP?)

Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk> writes:
> - There is a native-line-end property that can be set on a file. I am
> not sure if this is a separate property from the text/binary thing
> as I am not sure what the text/binary thing does at present!

Philip, to answer your implied question:

A file needs to know if it is text vs binary so that the client can
use `diff' and `patch' to merge repository changes into a locally
modified file. For binary files, the client won't even try to merge,
it just gives you both copies and lets you figure out what to do (we
plan support for pluggable merge tools, but that's not done yet).

Thus, text vs binary would be relevant even if we weren't supporting
newline conversion nor keyword substitution.

-Karl

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:53 2006