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Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] and RFC: binary files merging and hook
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rghetta |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] and RFC: binary files merging and hook |
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Tue, 31 May 2005 07:47:55 +0200 |
On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 12:20 +0100, Joel Crisp wrote:
> Hi
>
> My concern about this approach is that if you have lots of different types of
> files to handle, XML, Word, Rational XMI (which is XML
> but has a specific merge tool), etc then you would end up having to do lots
> of jiggering in the merge hooks. Also, the order in
> which you tried to identify the files at the point of merge would become
> significant, for example the case of the XMI file actually
> being an XML file means that you would have to ensure that you checked for
> XMI before XMI. This could get very complex.
But you still need to *automatically* categorize files in first place,
and to do that you still need to look for XMI before XML (but if your
XMI files have consistently a .xmi extension, looking at that is order
independent ;-) ).
Riccardo
- Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] and RFC: binary files merging and hook, (continued)
- Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] and RFC: binary files merging and hook, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/05/26
- Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] and RFC: binary files merging and hook, rghetta, 2005/05/27
- Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] and RFC: binary files merging and hook, Glen Ditchfield, 2005/05/28
- Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] and RFC: binary files merging and hook, Glen Ditchfield, 2005/05/31
- Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] and RFC: binary files merging and hook, rghetta, 2005/05/31
Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] and RFC: binary files merging and hook, rghetta, 2005/05/29
Re: [Monotone-devel] [PATCH] and RFC: binary files merging and hook - update, rghetta, 2005/05/31