Re: What do you Hate about Subversion?

Can we at least close this off for the general readership of this list.

1. It's demonstrable that any single scheme to normalise EOLs in a
mixed EOL 'text-file' has the potential to change the semantics of the
file.

2. Removal of the EOL facility isn't going to happen and there is no
deterministic manner in which you can normalise a file with mixed EOLs
without risking a change in semantics.

Options seem to be:

a. Do not allow the particular file to added as text or at least do
not allow it to be added with EOL conversion. This needs to be a user
gesture rather than a client rule-set.

b. Have subversion refuse to set the EOL conversion property for files
added that demonstrate inconsistent EOLs. This can be a client rule
rather than a user gesture - feedback is required to indicate that the
rule has been applied. CAVEAT: This then causes problems for
committing changes to existing files with the EOL property set if the
change contains newly inconsistent EOLs (an assumption could be made
given the platform and EOL property value but this may not always
produce expected results).

If there is a proposal to change subversion behaviour, someone please
state it rather than arguing specific file-type details of
questionable relevance.

--
Talden
On 2/6/07, Mark Clements <gmane@kennel17.co.uk> wrote:
> "Jeff Smith" <jsmith@robotronics.com> wrote in message
> news:200702051500.36461.jsmith@robotronics.com...
> > I don't get why you are wasting your resources arguing with me when
> > you could be attacking subversion developers. You should demand that
> > they remove the supposedly inappropriate feature from svn that
> > translates eol characters in a text file. See if that flies.
>
> ...and now you want to attack the developers?
>
> Give it a rest!
>
> - Mark Clements
>
>
>
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