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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does GIT require property like Subversion?
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 12:26:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <egajm5$424$2@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: egaj49$424$1@sea.gmane.org

Jakub Narebski wrote:

> We could in pronciple "borrow" Mercurial idea of input/output filters
>   http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/EncodeDecodeFilter
> which would (among others) enable to use constant eol-style in the shared
> part of repository i.e. object database, while using OS native eol-style
> (UNIX vs. Microsoft Windows vs. MacOS). eol-style doesn't matter much:
> you can find good editors which are able to use any eol-style for any OS
> nowadays.

What's more important, that would enable to store in SCM files which format
is of archive of mix of _text_ and binary files, archive being compressed
and binary. Examples include OpenDocument (ODF), Java Archive (.jar),
Mozilla extension (.xpi)... well good XML aware diff would be also nice.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-08 10:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-08  9:10 Does GIT require property like Subversion? Liu Yubao
2006-10-08  9:19 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-10-08 10:16   ` Jakub Narebski
2006-10-08 10:26     ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2006-10-08 15:52     ` Robin Rosenberg
2006-10-08 16:24       ` Petr Baudis
2006-10-08 16:40         ` Jakub Narebski
2006-10-09  2:53       ` Liu Yubao

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