On Sunday, February 28, 2016 at 7:30:57 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Warrick wrote: > On 28 February 2016 at 14:49, Rustom Mody 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!! >
> > 2. A good editor can read and write any newline style. It should also > not convert without asking the user. git is a *collaborative* tool and should work when the other party is using notepad. > 1. git can manage EOL changing if you want to enforce a newline style that > way. Only out-of-band You store autocrlf etc in your config not in the repo [And pray that the other (semi-literate) collaborator does likewise] > You clearly haven't ever done that. You specialize in crystal balls? Here's my report about CRLF issues in CPython https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2015-June/140563.html Bug report: http://bugs.python.org/issue24507 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
