Re: [Monotone-devel] OS-specific line endings

[Stephen Leake]

Richard Levitte <address@hidden> writes:

> Good, this was discussed years ago, but the discussion drifted off
> into nothingness.  A rehash could maybe take us closer to something
> workable.

Ok. I'm only looking to solve a very specific problem, but if that also
leads to a general mechanism, that's fine by me.

> The usual problem is there, how to make certain we don't do
> conversions with files that should be seen as binary but aren't
> obviously so from a technical point of view.

In my proposal, file-munging of any sort is only done for files with the
corresponding attribute.

With modern tools (at least modern free-software tools), the issue of
line-endings is pretty much moot. All the tools I use can handle any of
the three OS-specific line endings (Unix, DOS, Mac). My project policy
is to always use Unix line endings, but it actually doesn't matter.

I suspect this is the real reason there is no line-ending file munging
in mtn; it's simply not needed.

So tools like Quartus, that overwrite user-edited files, and insist on
OS-specific line endings, are simply broken.

I'm only proposing changing mtn in order to be able to cope better with
this broken tool.

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-- Stephe