[Python-Dev] Mercurial, linefeeds, and Visual Studio

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Jun 5 11:31:03 CEST 2009


Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
>> Essentially, pcbuild.sln is a binary file, and should be treated as
>> such. Maybe it's an error in the Subversion setup that it's treated as
>> text at all...
> 
> Yes, it certainly seems that way.

Except it isn't a binary file - it's a text file with CRLF line endings.
Why would we throw away the chance to get meaningful diffs when
Subversion can easily get the line endings correct?

Cheers,
Nick.

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