From: Robin Rosenberg (list subscriber) <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 22:02:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Importing Mozilla CVS into git
Message-ID: <200606050002.55818.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <200606042325.58884.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

Just forget this post... @_@ (except the last line)

söndag 04 juni 2006 23:25 skrev Robin Rosenberg (list subscriber):
> 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.
>