2009/6/5 Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com>: > Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: >>> Essentially, pcbuild.sln is a binary file, and should be treated as >>> such. Maybe it's an error in the Subversion setup that it's treated as >>> text at all... >> >> Yes, it certainly seems that way. > > Except it isn't a binary file - it's a text file with CRLF line endings. > Why would we throw away the chance to get meaningful diffs when > Subversion can easily get the line endings correct?
Fair point - I hadn't thought of it in that context. I wonder if Mercurial can treat it as a specialised form of binary file with custom diff/merge behaviour (which just happens to be "treat as text")? Of course, if that also requires client-side configuration, it's no better solution than win32text. I've a feeling I've seen discussions of versioned metadata (things like file properties) in Mercurial at some point in the past, but my Google skills are failing me at the moment... Paul. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
