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Re: Importing Mozilla CVS into git

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Robin Rosenberg (list subscriber) <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date
Jun 4, 2006, 21:25 UTC
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söndag 04 juni 2006 22:00 skrev Linus Torvalds:
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> 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
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  1. Jon SmirlJun 1, 2006
  2. Keith PackardJun 1, 2006
  3. Jon SmirlJun 2, 2006
  4. Keith PackardJun 2, 2006
  5. Jon SmirlJun 2, 2006
  6. Shawn PearceJun 2, 2006
  7. Keith PackardJun 2, 2006
  8. Jon SmirlJun 2, 2006
  9. Keith PackardJun 2, 2006
  10. Jon SmirlJun 2, 2006
  11. Shawn PearceJun 2, 2006
  12. Pavel RoskinJun 2, 2006
  13. Shawn PearceJun 2, 2006
  14. Johannes SchindelinJun 2, 2006
  15. Jon SmirlJun 2, 2006
  16. Igor BukanovJun 7, 2006
  17. Pavel RoskinJun 7, 2006
  18. Jon SmirlJun 7, 2006
  19. Jakub NarebskiJun 7, 2006
  20. Linus TorvaldsJun 7, 2006
  21. Martin LanghoffJun 7, 2006
  22. Martin LanghoffJun 2, 2006
  23. Robin Rosenberg (list subscriber)Jun 3, 2006
  24. Linus TorvaldsJun 3, 2006
  25. Bertrand JacquinJun 4, 2006
  26. Jakub NarebskiJun 4, 2006
  27. Linus TorvaldsJun 4, 2006
  28. Robin Rosenberg (list subscriber)Jun 4, 2006
  29. Linus TorvaldsJun 4, 2006
  30. Robin Rosenberg (list subscriber)Jun 4, 2006
  31. Robin Rosenberg (list subscriber)Jun 4, 2006
  32. Linus TorvaldsJun 4, 2006
  33. Yakov LernerJun 5, 2006
  34. Jon SmirlJun 3, 2006
  35. Jon SmirlJun 3, 2006
  36. Martin LanghoffJun 6, 2006
  37. Jon SmirlJun 6, 2006
  38. Martin LanghoffJun 6, 2006
  39. Keith PackardJun 7, 2006
  40. Jon SmirlJun 7, 2006
  41. Linus TorvaldsJun 1, 2006
  42. Jon SmirlJun 2, 2006
  43. Linus TorvaldsJun 2, 2006
  44. Junio C HamanoJun 2, 2006
  45. Linus TorvaldsJun 2, 2006
  46. Junio C HamanoJun 2, 2006
  47. Martin LanghoffJun 2, 2006

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