Anyway, now that I've ranted on what I want and how I think it
should work, what can I actually get, and how should I get it?
I think today that means making them binary.
Which means that we lose delta-based storage, which is a royal PITA.
Also, there is no way to set project defaults (is there?). The
heuristic p4 uses to guess the appropriate type is compiled-in, so
this means that all users will have to remember to do a -t.
Some won't, which will induce later wailing and gnashing of teeth.
And there is no way to do "pre-triggers" to enforce it either
(is there?), just post-triggers ("daemons").
Part of the problem here is a confounding by perforce of different
kinds of "type". There is a single type setting to determine both
view settings (file permissions, etc.) and storage encoding.
- -mda
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