--- Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@gmail.com> wrote:
> Frodak wrote:
>
> > But that is heuristic you are applying to EOLs
> that
> > can be wrong based upon your assumption that EOLs
> are
> > 2 bytes or 1 byte. You have no way of knowing how
> > many blank lines there were.
>
> Assume that 2-character representations are
> adjacent, non-identical
> characters. Any leftover single-character
> representations count too.
This is a guess. It may not be accurate. This is why
mixed EOL text files are a pain to deal with.
> > How do you expect SVN to
> > track the number of blank lines if nobody knows.
>
> You aren't solving the problem by cowardly refusing
> to take any
> responsibility for doing the operation correctly.
> Please describe the
> correct way to handle this issue before you claim
> that SVN can't do it
> as well as any other tool might.
I've already posted when SVN tracking of text files
works and does not work. Keep up. Calling me a
coward because I've already posted this information is
pretty petty.
I'm sorry that you don't understand the fact that if
subversion is to track the text file it has to be a
text file of known EOL upon adding it to the
repository.
> > But it can be wrong. Just because a missing
> _blank_
> > line doesn't matter to you, doesn't mean it
> doesn't
> > matter to others.
>
> We know it's wrong, we know it's text, we want it
> fixed. If you can
> describe the correct fix, then svn can do it as well
> as any other tool.
There is no "fix" for a mixed EOL text file. It is
always going to be a guess.
Your fix may not be the correct one for everyone using
this tool. SVN shouldn't be a text editor.
> If you can't describe the correct fix, then what's
> the next step that
> you think would be better? Go back to your favorite
> editor that
> probably screwed it up in the first place?
Why would you assume that VIM has these issues.
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