Jakub Narebski wrote: > We could in pronciple "borrow" Mercurial idea of input/output filters > http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/EncodeDecodeFilter > which would (among others) enable to use constant eol-style in the shared > part of repository i.e. object database, while using OS native eol-style > (UNIX vs. Microsoft Windows vs. MacOS). eol-style doesn't matter much: > you can find good editors which are able to use any eol-style for any OS > nowadays. What's more important, that would enable to store in SCM files which format is of archive of mix of _text_ and binary files, archive being compressed and binary. Examples include OpenDocument (ODF), Java Archive (.jar), Mozilla extension (.xpi)... well good XML aware diff would be also nice. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html