[phobos] [dmd-internals] svn-->git migration

[Sean Kelly]

In SVN you can set eol-style to native, and it converts line endings when the repos is retrieved, I believe.  Maybe we'll just have to standardize on \n?

On Jan 23, 2011, at 8:42 PM, Jason Evans wrote:

> On 01/23/2011 08:28 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> How do we set things so that line endings are automatically normalized
>> to LF?
> 
> You mean, something similar to a subversion commit hook script that re-writes the commit on the fly?  I don't think we'll be able to do that in general, due to the distributed nature of git.  Here is a relevant github support discussion:
> 
> 	http://support.github.com/discussions/feature-requests/686-pre-commit-hooks
> 
> The core of the problem is that an entire series of changes (including arbitrarily complex forking/merging) can be performed in a local repository, then pushed to github all at once.  Therefore, normalization would have to do some non-trivial history rewriting, which would then cause divergence from the repository the changes were pushed from.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason
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