On Friday 02 February 2007 08:00, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> Okay, suppose we're on Windows, where the native format says \r\n
> is an eol. Treating \r, \n, \r\n to be "equivalent on the way in"
> means they all get transformed to \n in the repository, the way
> \r\n is currently handled? Then as soon as I checked them out
> again, they'd all be converted to \r\n. That was my first option:
> convert everything to text. But here you've got a version control
> system modifying your files. I don't think that's something it
> should do. Changing files is the responsibility of the user. svn
> should not change files, except in perfectly reversible ways (the
> way it currently handles true text files).
>
> Duncan Murdoch
Yeah? It sounds like you are already mad at subversion because it does
already "modify" files by assuming a certain file is plain text if
the user tell it that is text. Right?
Perhaps you have a fair understanding of what svn can do already, but
many people are sticking their foot in their mouth by arguing the
theory without enough experience on the current capabilities of svn.
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Received on Fri Feb 2 18:28:23 2007