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Re: [PROPOSAL] Drop XML from .svn/entries

From: John Szakmeister <john_at_szakmeister.net>
Date: 2006-04-18 09:38:13 CEST

On Tuesday 18 April 2006 00:15, Ivan Zhakov wrote:
> On 4/18/06, Peter N. Lundblad <peter@famlundblad.se> wrote:
> > Garrett Rooney writes:
> > > On 4/17/06, Peter N. Lundblad <peter@famlundblad.se> wrote:
> > > > Garrett Rooney writes:
> > >
> > > I was assuming that each entry had a fixed number of fields or
> > > something like that. If not, I imagine we could include some specific
> > > character as the end of entry marker...
> >
> > After some discussion with rooneg on IRC, I'm going to change the format
> > so that newlines separate fields instead of pipes and the sequence "\f\n"
> > (control-l newline) will terminate each record.
>
> What is \f means? Did you mean "\r\n"?

'\f' is the form-feed character (it advances to the next page when printing).

>
> > Can everybody live with this change?
>
> -0.5, I cannot. IMHO such format could be broken by many editors. I
> often tweak entries file for debugging.

Doubtful... they're present in the source code right now, and your editor
seems to be doing fine. :-) Take a look just below the copyright header, and
you'll find one. Just below #includes, you'll find another. Most editors
I've come across seem to work fine with the form-feed character.

-John

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