Re: Importing Mozilla CVS into git

["Robin Rosenberg (list subscriber)" <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>]

söndag 04 juni 2006 22:00 skrev Linus Torvalds:
> On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Robin Rosenberg (list subscriber) wrote:
> > Other version control systems simply treat text and binary files
> > differently. No smart(ass) logic doing the wrong thing.
>
> Treating text and binary file differently _is_ the "smart(ass) logic doing
> the wrong thing".
>
> Git really shouldn't do that. The patch was meant to show how you really
> don't need to - the internal objects would never be "binary vs text",
> there would be a way to just basically map one onto another.

Your patch assumes all files are text and the transformation doesn't corrupt 
the file, which isn't true. CR-LF combinations cannot be translated to LF and
vice verse in all files, simply becuase what looks like CR LF isn't two 
characters, but something else. Looking for a nul byte and possibly some
other magic byte would make you right more often, but not always.

[...]
> If you can't be civil, at least be quiet, ok?
>
> 		Linus
A bad joke, I'm sorry. It wasn't ment to be offensive.

-- robin