Geoff Worboys wrote:
> (Forcing users to deal with the reply-to stuff on this list
> is something of a pain don't you think. As if I need the list
> copy and a CC copy. Never mind...)
>
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Errr... Shared directories are the bad idea here. Svn is
>> perfectly capable of managing a copy for everyone and text
>> files are not portable.
>
> I don't necessarily disagree about shared directories being
> a bad idea ... but the idea that text files are not portable
> is slowly getting out of date. I suspect some old *nix
> utilities may still suffer from some vulnerability here but
> a lot (most?) newer (Windows) software is much more tolerant.
There are workarounds but you can't just expect things to work in general and
pretend it is normal. And some of those workarounds may involve silently
changing to the preferred local line endings - and if anything but subversion
itself does that it becomes a change in every line when committed, making diffs
useless.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
Received on 2010-07-13 15:36:04 CEST