From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] treat any file with NUL as binary
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:16:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vve5ubmdm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080116011321.GD13984@dpotapov.dyndns.org> (Dmitry Potapov's message of "Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:13:21 +0300")
Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> writes:
> Then it seems to me, Linus sounded more in favor of that change than
> against it. His main argument was against 'diff' heuristic, which he
> felt was not strict enough for CRLF translation: "It's *much* better
> to miss some CRLF translation than to do too much of it."
Yeah, you found the right one, and I agreed with the argument
back then, and I agree with it now. I think NUL heuristics is a
good one and obviously it makes it tighter than what diff uses,
which should be what we are aiming for in this thread.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-16 1:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-15 14:28 [PATCH] treat any file with NUL as binary Dmitry Potapov
2008-01-15 21:03 ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-01-15 23:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-16 1:13 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-01-16 1:16 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-01-16 1:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-16 1:59 ` Dmitry Potapov
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