Re: Coflict marker detection proposal

[Pascal Bourguignon]

> > I think it may be possible for CVS to keep track of which
> > markers it puts in.
> > For example, it can keep the line numbers of these markers
> > somewhere in the CVS
> > subdirectory.
> 
> Umm... this may not be a good idea.  The user may change other things in the
> conflicted files which will change the line numbers, so that under this
> implementation CVS would "lose" the markers that it had added.  However,
> keep in mind that I disagree with Mr. Woods in that I don't think that CVS
> should put any restrictions on the content of files stored within CVS.  I
> shouldn't have to adjust my source files in order to accomodate the source
> control system.
> 
> On a side note, has anybody ever heard of a development environment where it
> stores its source files in 2-byte Unicode on disk instead of 7-bit ASCII (or
> even variable size like UTF-8)?  Wouldn't _that_ just confuse a few
> programs?  How about if the first byte of the character is 0x0A?  To most
> programs it would probably appear as a binary file.... how would diff3 (and
> its relatives) deal with this?  This is still a text file, just not in
> ASCII.

Yep. Some OPENSTEP editor could edit plain Unicode (source) files. Old
ISO-Latin-1 characters are  coded in Unicode with their  high byte set
to 0. Therefore in such files almost half the bytes are null.

Very nice  also, on NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP,  you could compile RTF  files :
"MyClass.m.rtf".   Most  useful  to  pretty-format  the  documentation
comments.  (The  compiler driver  would just filter  out RTF  to ASCII
before compiling).

Now,  try to  handle  CVS merge  conflicts on  a  RTF file  in an  RTF
editor...




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