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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