You see, offline discussions don't work, so that was a stupid
suggestion :)
example:
On Monday 05 February 2007 17:15, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 2/5/2007 4:33 PM, Jeff Smith wrote:
> > On Friday 02 February 2007 11:30, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> >> We're talking about a revision control system. It needs to
> >> handle text, binaries, everything. If the user says something
> >> is text, but then submits something that is clearly not text
> >> according to the local conventions for how text should be
> >> stored, then here's where we differ.
> >
> > offline...
>
> I'm not interested in an offline conversation with you. Please
> don't email me again.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
> > It's not about the version control system, is it. Nobody is
> > saying that svn should not track "content" of each file, so we
> > all agree. You and others don't agree that there is any such
> > thing as handling text differently. You're saying that the text
> > file with mixed eol styles is clearly not text. I am asking you,
> > what is not clear about that? By your definition, there can only
> > be one eol style and the rest are clearly not text. Anything else
> > is guessing.
> >
> > That doesn't matter anyways; you must agree that the developer
> > knows better than any automated script, whether that is clearly
> > text as expected. The only thing the human cannot easily see is
> > the format of the eol, which is why subversion needs to handle it
> > as that is what it claims to do... handle multi platform text
> > formats
> > (svn:eol-style).
> >
> > Given that a text file is clearly ASCII-representable characters
> > separated newlines, and there are three newline styles known (LF,
> > CR, CRLF), then
> >
> > See now this is where you respond to one of my paragraphs above,
> > yet your response will be one of the issues we (others) have
> > already cleared up in the past, and therefore we are pointlessly
> > arguing in circles. At what point will anyone actually address my
> > concern rather than steering around it in circles of irrelevancy?
> > None if we cannot even remember what the others have said, or
> > none if we can't keep the thread online.
> >
> > For example, you will now say "but then if the file is not text
> > then svn will corrupt it" and I'd have to say, why didn't you
> > read my many posts that keep saying, then don't try to import
> > those files with the option that I am requesting! How are people
> > so selfish to think that they don't need the feature so forget
> > the 10000 users who do?
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