Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Bug in CRLF conversions

[Jon Bright]

Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> Personally, I find it incredibly dangerous that you can defined the
> internal database line ending character...

Me too.  I've always argued that the database should have the canonical 
form (and that this canonical form should be LF-only for text files and 
whatever-the-file-has for binary or other "don't mess with the line 
endings" files).  My reasoning goes:

1. Everyone's databases should contain the same contents after the same 
set of operations, independent of platform.
2. The hash of a file in the DB must thefore be the same for everyone.
2. This hash must therefore be based on a single canonical form.
3. Since LF-only is the most common form for the files monotone is most 
often dealing with, choose LF-only as the common form.

--
Jon