Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] and RFC: binary files merging and hook

[rghetta]

On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 12:20 +0100, Joel Crisp wrote:
> Hi
> 
> My concern about this approach is that if you have lots of different types of 
> files to handle, XML, Word, Rational XMI (which is XML 
> but has a specific merge tool), etc then you would end up having to do lots 
> of jiggering in the merge hooks. Also, the order in 
> which you tried to identify the files at the point of merge would become 
> significant, for example the case of the XMI file actually 
> being an XML file means that you would have to ensure that you checked for 
> XMI before XMI. This could get very complex.
But you still need to *automatically* categorize files in first place,
and to do that you still need to look for XMI before XML (but if your
XMI files have consistently a .xmi extension, looking at that is order
independent ;-)  ).

Riccardo