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Bug 112730

Summary: Provide help when assigning ASCII/Binary file types
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Oyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe>
Component: TeamAssignee: Platform Team Inbox <platform-team-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 Keywords: helpwanted
Version: 3.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
Whiteboard:

Description Oyvind Harboe CLA 2005-10-15 06:36:48 EDT 
I'd like to see the CVS functionality made accessible to a broader
audience(non-programmers).

For novice users of CVS treating files as "binary" is the safe choice. 

I.e. if they don't know what the ramifications are of choosing binary vs. text
for CVS, they should choose binary.

Possible action: add a "Recommended" text to the binary vs. text requester.
Comment 1 Michael Valenta CLA 2005-10-15 08:10:12 EDT 
We used to just default all unkown types to binary because it was safer. Now 
we make binary the default when prompting for the file types so the user has 
to take an explicit step to make a file ASCII. I think most users would be 
annoyed if you prompted them with an "Are you sure" message whenever they 
choose ASCII (even if it did have a don't show me this again). I guess we 
could add a "Recommend" button to the dialog that would peek into the files to 
determine the type. Such a feature would need to be 100% correct and I don't 
known it this is possible.
Comment 2 Michael Valenta CLA 2007-06-19 12:06:16 EDT 
There is no plan to address this item.