[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r86720 - python/branches/py3k/Misc/ACKS

[Terry Reedy]

On 11/24/2010 2:04 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 15:07, Terry Reedy<tjreedy at udel.edu>  wrote:

>> I used Notepad to edit the file, TortoiseSvn to commit, the same as I did
>> for #9222, rev86702, Lib\idlelib\IOBinding.py, yesterday.
>> If the latter is OK, perhaps *.py gets filtered better than misc. text
>> files. I believe I have the config as specified in dev/faq.
>
> Adding the BOM will be an editor thing, not a svn thing. Doing a
> Google search for [ms notepad bom] shows that Notepad did the
> "helpful", invisible edit.

So I presume it did the same with IOBinding.py. Does *.py get filtered 
is a way that could be extended to no-extention files? Do *.txt files 
get BOM filtered off? Should all text files in repository have some 
extension (default .txt)?

More to the point, can better filtering be added to the new hg 
repository? Or can a local Windows hg setup have such filtering on local 
commits before pushing?

I know now that I could always edit with IDLE's editor, but it is a lot 
easier to right click and select edit than it is to run thru the 
directory tree in an open dialog. And of course, since the pseudo-BOM 
addition is undocumented within notepad itself, and probably other 
editors, it is easy to not know.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy