Last day to vote/reject on proposed EOL names

Matt Doran matt.doran at papercut.com
Tue Mar 31 03:51:35 BST 2009


Eric Siegerman wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 08:43 +1000, Ian Clatworthy wrote:
>   
>> In general, wt-format[:repo-format] where the default
>> repo-format is lf. I'm happy to change the separator to -, +, / or
>> something else but : seems as good as any.
>>     
>
> How about splitting the two config items into separate
> properties?  E.g., what you have as "native:crlf" would instead
> be something like:
>     [...]
>     eof = native
>     repo-eof = crlf
>
> and one (presumably) common configuration for Windows developers
> working on cross-platform projects would be:
>     [...]
>     eof = crlf
>     repo-eof = lf
>
> Your defaulting of the repo-format is easily arranged by having
> the "repo-eof" config property default to "lf".  (Probably "eof"
> should default to "native", but that's a whole other discussion.)
>
>   
I agree that this seems to be more self-documenting and easier to 
understand.    And your use-case for the "big cheese" to mandate 
repository format, is a good justification for splitting the configuration.

Matt
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