Re: special property for text types

"C. Michael Pilato" <cmpilato_at_collab.net> writes:
> I like the thinking here, but would prefer to optimize this a bit,
> perhaps by simply allowing svn:eol-style to accept a value which means
> "don't do any EOL conversion, but note that this is line-based".
> maybe "*" or "" or something.

I'm not so sure that's good...

People set 'svn:eol-style' because they're looking for a way to get
line-ending conversions -- the conversion is the "task" there.

People would set svn:is-text because they want to make Subversion
behave certain ways with the file when diffing and merging. The
"task" is totally different here.

If we were to overload the svn:eol-style property (the way we did with
'svn switch --relocate'), I think we'd be confusing a lot of people,
who think from the point of view of their tasks, not from the point of
view of how Subversion works.

I think the documentation for svn:is-text should recommend that the
user seriously consider if they need to set svn:eol-style instead
(after all, how often would you need to say something's text and yet
not be willing to set svn:eol-style to at *least* "native"?), though.

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