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[Monotone-devel] Re: Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a w
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Bruce Stephens |
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[Monotone-devel] Re: Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a weird taste... |
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Wed, 18 Aug 2004 13:41:28 +0100 |
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Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
> jon> I'd argue MIME types aren't useful in this context.
>
> Having thought some more about it, I agree, and so does Bruce as far
> as I understand.
There are clearly potential advantages, in that you might have some
special diff tools for some file types (for example, tree based
operations for application/xml). However, I suspect the advantages
are some way in the future, if they'll ever appear.
[...]
> I'm not sure why we would need to keep track of anything but the
> local line-ending. Really. Text is text. Text is a vector of
> lines, basically. Line ending isn't really something that should be
> considered part of the text per se.
Almost always, you're right: text is text, and you want it with the
client's native conventions. However, now and again (because of some
broken tool, or broken process) it does matter: some tool needs the
file with some specific line-ending convention, regardless of the
platform's convention. Such cases are sufficiently rare, though, (or
seem so to me---there may be domains where the situation is much more
common) that it wouldn't be a disaster if they were ignored entirely.
[...]
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a weird taste..., (continued)
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a weird taste..., Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2004/08/17
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a weird taste..., Bruce Stephens, 2004/08/17
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a weird taste..., graydon hoare, 2004/08/17
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a weird taste..., Jon Bright, 2004/08/18
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a weird taste..., Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2004/08/18
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a weird taste..., Bruce Stephens, 2004/08/18
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a weird taste..., Bruce Stephens, 2004/08/18
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a weird taste..., Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2004/08/18
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a weird taste..., Jon Bright, 2004/08/18
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a weird taste..., Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2004/08/18
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a weird taste...,
Bruce Stephens <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a weird taste..., Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2004/08/18
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a weird taste..., graydon hoare, 2004/08/18
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a weird taste..., Bruce Stephens, 2004/08/18
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a weird taste..., Adam Logghe, 2004/08/18
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a weird taste..., Jon Bright, 2004/08/18
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a weird taste..., Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker, 2004/08/18
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a weird taste..., Tim Larson, 2004/08/18
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a weird taste..., Jon Bright, 2004/08/18
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a weird taste..., Bruce Stephens, 2004/08/18
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Looking at the code affected in bug 9752 leaves a weird taste..., Bruce Stephens, 2004/08/18