On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Patrick Monnerat wrote:

> In fact, I think this attribute exists to say: "there may be
> differences, but ignore them".

Exactly.

> If all files were binary, the endline character would always be checked out
> the same way regardless of the client OS, so this attribute would not be
> needed !

Not really, since the attribute is used for the comparison and this makes
sense if for example the output differs on different platforms. Like stdout
redirected to a file will differ between windows and unix...

> As a consequence, I think we should tag all test files as binary if we do
> not plan to change version control software and/or test file format in a
> near future.

I have no plans on changing software for revision control any time soon, so
that the autobuilds etc won't have to get changed. I think CVS is good enough
for our simple needs at this point in time.

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