Re: [TSVN] Some questions I couldn't get answered

"Simon Large" <slarge@slarge.plus.com> writes:

> Ah, I understand the problem now. And maybe there is a solution. TSVN
> passes the pristine copy directly to the external diff program. Maybe
> that is not a safe thing to do anyway, because the external program
> could modify the pristine copy. So we could solve 2 problems if the
> pristine copy was converted to the same eol-style in a temp file before
> passing to the external diff/merge program. That _might_ slow things
> down a bit for large files.

Subversion libraries do the opposite -- they convert the working copy
version to repository normal (LF) format, and also un-expand keywords,
and then diff against the pristine copy. This way, you don't get
spurious diffs for keyword expansion or newline conversion.

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Received on Wed Jun 1 19:17:14 2005