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Re: Does GIT require property like Subversion?

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 8, 2006, 10:26 UTC
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Jakub Narebski wrote:
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> We could in pronciple "borrow" Mercurial idea of input/output filters
>   http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/EncodeDecodeFilter
> which would (among others) enable to use constant eol-style in the shared
> part of repository i.e. object database, while using OS native eol-style
> (UNIX vs. Microsoft Windows vs. MacOS). eol-style doesn't matter much:
> you can find good editors which are able to use any eol-style for any OS
> nowadays.

What's more important, that would enable to store in SCM files which format is of archive of mix of _text_ and binary files, archive being compressed and binary. Examples include OpenDocument (ODF), Java Archive (.jar), Mozilla extension (.xpi)... well good XML aware diff would be also nice.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
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  3. Jakub NarebskiOct 8, 2006
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