Bazaar as Subversion replacement

[Nicholas Allen]

Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> Nicholas Allen wrote:
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>>> The other thing is that not all Windows tools have
>>> broken line-ending handling.  
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>> That's true - but some tools require configuration to work correctly. If
>> developers forget to set this up then they make massive changes due to
>> incorrect line endings and that messes up merges and diffs.
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> I guess "requires configuration" is semi-broken.  Good tools will
> autodetect the line-ending style when they open the file.
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But when you create a new file with the editor you need to tell it what 
line ending style to use. If I create a .sh file on windows (even in an 
editor that behaves as above) it has no line ending style to go on as 
the file does not exist yet. So the editor needs to support file name 
patterns to line ending style for newly created files. I don't use (in 
fact know of) any editor that does this.