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[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 11:40 +0200, Marcus Sundman wrote:

> > > How do I tell Mercurial what type my file is?
> > 
> > You don't, because it doesn't care.
> 
> Now that's plain stupid. What good is a file if you don't know what kind 
> of file it is?

I'm sorry?  Why should the revision control system care what kind of
file you're dealing with?  If you look around at other revision control
systems, you'll find that just about none care what type a file is.  The
common denominator you'll see is that some distinguish between binary
files and text, so that they can convert line endings between Unix and
Windows conventions.

> From afar mercurial seemed nice, but if this kind of "worse-is-better" 
> mentality is common here it'd probably be better of me to go help with 
> the revc project or something.

Please do.  Having "now that's plain stupid" thrown back in my face in
response to my attempt to be helpful doesn't make me very interested in
having you stick around.

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