Re: Importing Mozilla CVS into git

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Jun 4, 2006, 23:19 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0606041615430.5498@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <200606042325.58884.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>

On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Robin Rosenberg (list subscriber) wrote:

>
> Your patch assumes all files are text and the transformation doesn't corrupt 
> the file, which isn't true.

How do you think things get done? You test the _technology_ first, and then if that is shown to be workable in a real environment, _then_ do you actually add the polish to make it useful.

That was all the patch was. A technology demonstration. I'd really like to hear whether it works in a simple CR/LF environment, because if it doesn't, then it needs some totally different approach.

And yes, I could test it myself, but (a) I'm way too lazy and (b) I consciously try to get others involved because it's a better long-term strategy (because I expect to be ay too lazy in the future too)

		Linus