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

SteveKing wrote:
> Simon Large wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> What do you think this option here is for?
>
http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/docs/TortoiseSVN_en/ch05s25.html#tsvn-DUG-settings-progs
> (the option at the bottom of that dialog, called "Convert files when
> diffing against BASE").

I think it is for doing what the hint and the docs say, which is
unexpansion of keywords. There is not mention of eol conversions. Should
there be?

> Simon, I can't believe you missed this? *You* wrote the docs! ;)

Ho hum. I didn't write right.

Simon

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