Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Encoding handling proposal

[David Allouche]

On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 15:13 +0300, Marcus Sundman wrote:
> Here is my proposal of how *I* think a CM system should handle the "encoding 
> issue" and some related issues. You may have a different opinion, and if 
> you do it'd be nice to hear it, but no trolling, please.
> (See the "Notes" section below for comments regarding each point.)

Your proposal raises a number of points, some of them have been
discussed at length on the mailing list in the past, some of them are
quite far-reaching. Thep will probably be easier to discuss if you break
your big proposal in smaller chunks, each to be discussed separately.

Some of smaller chunks I can make out are:

      * Automatic file content conversion between the archive and the
        checked-out trees.
      * MIME-type sensitive diffing, merging, annotation, etc.
      * How to handle the non-portable file-name problem.

Maybe you have some other issues in mind, but it's difficult to make
them out since the points you raised tend to overlap.

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