Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: line endings with 0.31

[Brian May]

>>>>> "Larry" == Larry Hastings <address@hidden> writes:

    Larry> I agree with Nathaniel: eol conversion should be disabled
    Larry> by default, and should be enabled with a
    Larry> setting. Principle-of-least-surprise there.  Optimally,
    Larry> there should be a way for the system to guess at the
    Larry> "convert eols" flag when you run "mtn add", like
    Larry> f'rinstance a Lua hook that examines the filenames of added
    Larry> files and can set the attribute, with a default
    Larry> implementation that compares the filename to a regular
    Larry> expression (or even just a list of extensions) stored as a
    Larry> database variable.

I agree in principle.

Unfortunately, the hooks, I believe cannot be set on a per database
basis (correct me if I am wrong), so I don't think the hook should be
looking at values stored in a database variable. It could be
confusing. Possibly reading from a list form a text file somewhere
would be better.

I haven't really thought about this too much yet (I am not wide awake
at the moment), but just my initial thoughts.
-- 
Brian May <address@hidden>