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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: the line-ending discussion
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Ethan Blanton |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: the line-ending discussion |
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Thu, 2 Feb 2006 22:04:36 -0500 |
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Graydon Hoare spake unto us the following wisdom:
> Operations 1 and 2 are done by splitting or joining. The split and join
> operations are governed by the following rules:
>
> - At first, monotone's default behavior will be to use the "native"
> line-ending forms (only LF on unix, only CR on mac, only CRLF on
> windows). If you are sharing your workspace between platforms on
> NFS or SMB, you are out of luck. For now.
>
> - Once we have a mechanism for specifying project policies, it will
> be a matter of project policy, and you can split and join lines
> using whatever you want.
>
> This is not what monotone does now, but I find it an agreeable road
> forwards. Does anyone disagree?
This seems very reasonable to me.
Ethan
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