On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:29:51PM -0800, Bill Fenner wrote:
Straight revision control systems aren't actually that good for XML
that's been edited in an XML editor, since they tend to pretty-print
the XML when saving, and people using 2 different editors could end up
creating diffs on every line. (Of course, one could use a front end
to the revision control system that formatted the XML and used rfcdiff
on the result...)
As you said, reasonable version control systems have hooks which can
be used to automatically "normalize" documents while they are being
checked in.
/js
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