Solliciting Feedback: Tracking and Storing File Encoding

Kevin Bullock kbullock+mercurial at ringworld.org
Thu Sep 24 11:27:14 CDT 2015


> On Sep 18, 2015, at 16:11, Erik van Zijst <erik.van.zijst at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Following earlier only discussions and yesterday's minisprint, I went
> ahead and typed out a spec for how we could track character encoding
> meta data alongside repository contents.
> 
> I've put this on the wiki and I'd like to ensure I haven't missed or
> overlooked anything before I set out to implement this:
> 
> https://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Tracking%20File%20Encoding
> 
> My intention is to work on implementing this during next month's sprint.


One nitpick: You say that regexes are "Python/Perl" syntax. Those are two quite different syntaxes. I believe .hgignore uses straight-up Python regexp syntax (possibly with certain operators blacklisted?).

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