<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Eric Siegerman wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1238463002.796.30.camel@claves" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 08:43 +1000, Ian Clatworthy wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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.) </pre> </blockquote> 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.<br> <br> Matt<br> </body> </html>