Last day to vote/reject on proposed EOL names

[Alexander Belchenko]

Mark Hammond пишет:
> On 2/04/2009 7:07 PM, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
>> And such people will complain about rejected commits and blame VCS who
>> reject their commits, and so on, so on, so on.
> 
> But I'm advocating a situation not unlike what svn provides.  I've seen 
> no evidence to suggest this is a failure due to users not understanding 
> the rejection message svn provides in similar situations.
> 
> As I've mentioned, there doesn't appear to be a *practical* scenario I 
> accept this as being a problem - they all revolve around a tool-chain 
> involving one brain-dead tool only supporting one EOL style and another 
> only supporting the other - plus people making checkins where (a) they 
> have clearly not tested the change and (b) are too naive to understand 
> the implication of what they are doing.  IMO this can be treated like 
> any other change which breaks things due to it being untested - just 
> revert it and move on.
> 
>> Given this into account, I'd prefer to have optional support for 
>> non-native
>> variants. You don't need them? Don't use it. I don't see *the* problem.
>>
>> What's the problem?
> 
> The problem is that bzr may guess it should change my content underneath 
> me.  Semi-smart editors (ie, too dumb to fix copy-paste EOLs, but smart 
> enough to notice changes underneath them) which are running when the 
> tree is updated may report the file was changed causing confusion for 
> the user.  The problems resulting in bzr *not* doing a transform seem 
> artificial IMO.  So I see practical problems in bzr changing stuff 
> underneath me, and no practical ones in bzr *not* doing that.

I don't understand the text above. Perhaps because my poor English.
Sorry.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark
> 
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