On Sunday, February 28, 2016 at 6:54:40 PM UTC+5:30, Gordon Levi wrote: > Rustom Mody wrote: > >Glade generates XML (last I saw) > >XML is text... kinda... but not quite > >eg XML is sometimes/somewhere space sensitive, sometimes not > >This can generate messy diffs > > That is also true of Python code but does not preclude effective > source control.
Yes as I said its not satisfactory but not impossible to manage Heck Current state of art VCSes cannot even manage mismatching EOL conventions cleanly. And as usual they make a virtue out of the lack: "git stores binary data not text" which means that opening a file created on windows on linux and saving it in WITHOUT a SINGLE CHANGE can give you a 10,000 line diff!! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
