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Re: Merge mode (Was Classifying files as binary or text)

From: Branko Cibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:43:35 +0100

Julian Foad wrote:
>> * there never was consensus for the "obvious" ones, for the simple
>> reason that they're not always obvious -- e.g., consider
>> application/xml, which sometimes can and sometimes can't be
>> properly merged.
>>
>
> We don't need to try to be too clever. Either we decide that Subversion
> shall do line-wise blame/diff/merge on these kinds of formats, or we
> decide that it won't. People can plug in their own merge tools if they
> need more advanced behaviour, so I think we should make these formats be
> classified as "text" and therefore use blame/diff/merge on them.
>

We'd be taking it upon ourselves to provide a definite answer to an
indeterminate question, and the only result would be that we'd piss off
the other half of our users.

[...]

>> But more about that in the "real" response.
>>
>
> Please first make sure you see my reply to B. Smith-Mannschott in this
> thread, in which my text begins "Ah, yes, it is illogical".
>

Yup, I will; have read it but now must rush. (It's a bit uncomfortable
to jump the gun with responses in this way ... please bear with me.)

-- Brane

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