Binary file handling discussion

[Hanns-Steffen Eichenberg]

An additional thought ...

On 11/4/06, Hanns-Steffen Eichenberg <scameronde at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> On 11/3/06, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
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> One thing I really like about the proposal is that it gives an easy way
> > to give values for lots of files in the tree. And to update that
> > property. Tracking stuff like this in a per-file method like SVN means
> > that you need to remember to set them for any new file. One of my
> > biggest beefs is that svn:ignore doesn't have a way to make it
> > recursive, so adding a new sub-project tends to add all the things that
> > you just asked it to ignore in the other project.
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> Yes. I really like centralized configurations. I really do :-)
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Let's assume there is only a central configuration file and no individual
file properties
like CVS or SVN have.

What happens to a file that is moved or renamed? What if i configured to
handle xml files in 'configuration' directories different than other xml
files, and
then rename the 'configuration' directory to 'config', forgetting to also
change the
central .bzrtypes file. Not a good idea at all!

So that seems to be the reason why CVS is using special file attributes, but
has also a central file describing the default attributes for new files.



John
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> Ciao,
>   Steffen
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