Re: information about storing text-only files

Erik Huelsmann wrote:

>> I would think, ideally, that it would show the
>> property change only as it is still a text file and
>> only the EOL style has changed.
>
> But subversion doesn't know about text files :-) It only knows it
> needs to do certain transforms on special events in order to make sure
> the user has the right eol style in his working copy. Nothing more.

If that were true it wouldn't make any sense to show diffs as lines. If
it understands the concept of lines it should know they didn't change.
If it doesn't the diffs should only be binary byte differences. What
does a line or eol style mean to something that doesn't know about text
files?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@gmail.com
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