Re: [RFC] ll-merge: Normalize files before merging

> Am 6/11/2010 9:34, schrieb Eyvind Bernhardsen:
>> On 11. juni 2010 07:49, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>>> I think you are going overboard here. Normalization should only happen
>>> only for data that moves from the worktree to the database. But during a
>>> merge, at most one part can come from the worktree, methinks; you are
>>> normalizing all three of them, though.
>> 
>> Well, that's sort of the point.  All three are normalized to (hopefully)
>> minimize the differences between them, increasing the chance of a
>> successful merge.
>
> I know what your point is. It is still inappropriate to call
> normalize_file() on data that comes from the repository. It is not the
> task of a merge procedure to blindly normalize data.