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RE: What do you Hate about Subversion?

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. <vawjr_at_rudbek.com>
Date: 2007-02-05 04:38:07 CET

At 12:39 2007-02-02, L. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> >> > Frodak
> >>
> >> I was wondering if anyone can implement it. I've not done any work on
> >> this project but believe that asking the user instead of aborting the
> >> import would be trivial for a regular programmer already editing
> >> subversion source. I will do it if it comes to that, but would be
> >> useless if not widely accepted.
> >>
> >> OK I see you have not followed the discussion from the beginning nor
> >> the middle, or you have forgotten the issues. Go back and read
> >> archives. For example yes they were not intentionally mixed (verified
> >> text files but corrupted), and why make another tool that seeks out
> >> the 7 out of 1000 which have been corrupt when svn already does that,
> >> and no I'd prefer that svn tracked those changes, so I'd prefer a
> >> slightly different approach then converting the line-ends first and
> >> then importing the file. I'd not have imported my original text, now
> >> would I?
> >>
>
>You can implement it but I don't think it will accepted. Subversion core
>philosophy is that you don't change files during check-in.

well, except for "keyword expansions".....
so since there's ONE exception, let's fix the EOL thing too

> Since different
>combinations of mixed line endings can generate the same file when converted
>there will be some cases where a check-in will result in the working copy
>being out of date. That means the subversion client will have to modify the
>working copy file as well.
>
>You can either agree or disagree with this I don't care. You can continue
>the thread but don't bother to reply to me personally because I am filter
>out further messages from this thread...
>
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