Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: naughty merge tool

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 12:02:12PM +0100, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 19:56 -0800, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> > I've just noticed that there's some minor corruption in monotone's
> > ChangeLog; in particular, "Wojciech Mi<non-ascii>kowski" is having his
> > name gradually changed by the insertion of more non-ascii bytes.  My
> > best guess right now as to the cause is that some external merge tool
> > is not playing nice with utf-8.
> > 
> > The reason this is my best guess is that I can't cause it to happen
> > again locally just by poking at monotone, and the two most recent
> > times it's happened were both merges by Julio.  Julio, what merge tool
> > do you use?
> 
> Oh, I forgot to mention this.  I used emacs for the merges, but vim to
> do the original editing.  Are the versions before the merges still
> correct?

It seems to just be the merges, not the editing.

> PS: Why am I not getting my own emails to the list??

Log into your mailman account on the website; there's a setting for
this there.

-- Nathaniel

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