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

[Paul Moore]

2009/6/5 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:
> 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?

Fair point - I hadn't thought of it in that context. I wonder if
Mercurial can treat it as a specialised form of binary file with
custom diff/merge behaviour (which just happens to be "treat as
text")? Of course, if that also requires client-side configuration,
it's no better solution than win32text.

I've a feeling I've seen discussions of versioned metadata (things
like file properties) in Mercurial at some point in the past, but my
Google skills are failing me at the moment...

Paul.