On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: >> Who is the boss here? The user of the tool, or the tool? > > We are unfortunately a slave to decisions made long in the past, to > record some metadata – line endings, text encoding – as in-band content > rather than out-of-band pure metadata. The VCS must, IMO, be at least > aware that the content has changed when those in-band data change.
Not sure what you mean here. It's metadata that lets you properly interpret the content; by definition, that has to be out of band information with in-band consequences. It's like using a shebang to interpret an executable file - you can't just casually change the first line from "#!/usr/bin/python2" to "#!/usr/bin/python3" and deem that your code has now been ported to Py3. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
