[MERGE] Tree-specific rules

[Alexander Belchenko]

Lukáš Lalinský пишет:
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Ian Clatworthy
> <ian.clatworthy at internode.on.net> wrote:
>> lifeless, fullermd and I discussed tree-specific rules on
>> IRC today and agreed there was value in supporting them Real
>> Soon Now. Ultimately, we'd like to be able to define rules
>> that apply at a 'project' and/or branch level, perhaps by
>> embedding rules in locations.conf and branch.conf. That's
>> quite a complex change though, requiring further debate
>> (e.g. are nested sections in ini-files too ugly a syntax?)
>> and probably a branch format bump. There are also complexities
>> around reapplying rules from different branches against
>> a lightweight checkout.
> 
> This makes me wonder what are "rules" meant to be useful for. I was
> expecting them to be a solution for defining some extra metadata about
> versioned files, like text encoding, line endings, keyword expansion
> behavior. I don't know if I'm the only one...

No, you're not the one.