On 28 February 2016 at 14:49, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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!!
You clearly haven’t ever done that. 1. git can manage EOL changing if you want to enforce a newline style that way. 2. A good editor can read and write any newline style. It should also not convert without asking the user. -- Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
