Re: [Gnu-arch-users] missing feature: text file handling

[Johannes Berg]

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 13:41 +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> This might be an application of Robin's `generalized attributes' thing.
> Or am I overstretching things?

Possibly, I haven't read that closely enough.

> OTOH I'd be scared of things which munge files on checkout/checkin.
> When are the diffs cwcalculated? Are the checkout/checkin filters
> exact inverses (i.e. is dos_txt(unix_txt(file)) == file)? Do the
> patch sets depend on `platform'?

You can't guarantee that, as a unix_txt() operation would probably strip
only s/CRLC/LF/g, thus a file that previously had mixed line endings
wouldn't end up to be the same.

johannes

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