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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