From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: Does GIT require property like Subversion? Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 12:26:04 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <4528C09B.3030004@gmail.com> <20061008091900.GG30283@lug-owl.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Oct 08 12:25:53 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GWVqr-0000zU-Ig for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sun, 08 Oct 2006 12:25:45 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751049AbWJHKZk convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Oct 2006 06:25:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751051AbWJHKZk (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Oct 2006 06:25:40 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:4333 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751048AbWJHKZj (ORCPT ); Sun, 8 Oct 2006 06:25:39 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GWVqT-0000u7-By for git@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 08 Oct 2006 12:25:21 +0200 Received: from host-81-190-22-223.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.22.223]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Oct 2006 12:25:21 +0200 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-22-223.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Oct 2006 12:25:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-22-223.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Jakub Narebski wrote: > We could in pronciple "borrow" Mercurial idea of input/output filters > =A0 http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/EncodeDecodeFilte= r > which would (among others) enable to use constant eol-style in the sh= ared > part of repository i.e. object database, while using OS native eol-st= yle > (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 fo= rmat is of archive of mix of _text_ and binary files, archive being compress= ed and binary. Examples include OpenDocument (ODF), Java Archive (.jar), Mozilla extension (.xpi)... well good XML aware diff would be also nice= =2E --=20 Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git