Re: [RFC] ll-merge: Normalize files before merging

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Am 6/11/2010 9:34, schrieb Eyvind Bernhardsen:
> On 11. juni 2010 07:49, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> I think you are going overboard here. Normalization should only happen
>> only for data that moves from the worktree to the database. But during a
>> merge, at most one part can come from the worktree, methinks; you are
>> normalizing all three of them, though.
> 
> Well, that's sort of the point.  All three are normalized to (hopefully)
> minimize the differences between them, increasing the chance of a
> successful merge.

I know what your point is. It is still inappropriate to call
normalize_file() on data that comes from the repository. It is not the
task of a merge procedure to blindly normalize data.

-- Hannes
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