[Python-Dev] hgeol extension (Was: Mercurial migration: help needed) (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Sun Sep 6 09:41:24 CEST 2009

"Martin v. Löwis" writes:

This is what I refer to as YAGNI. Subversion has LF as the internal storage, and, IIRC, so does CVS. I don't think there is any precedence for wanting something else - and frankly, I can't see how repository storage would matter.

Well, internally you could use U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR, which would screw up everybody if they don't use the converter, since there are probably very few editors that understand U+2028. I've heard that this is what Samba did when converting to Unicode: intead of using UTF-8 they used UTF-16 so that English would be at least as buggy as any other language.

Maybe there's somebody who was participating in Samba at that time who knows?

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