[bundle buggy] Bundle downloads have DOS line endings?

[Aaron Bentley]

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Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> However the mimetype of that content is declared as "text/x-patch", so I guess
> the questions here are:
> 
>   * are MUAs supposed to convent text/* attachments to native line endings?  It
>     appears my mutt does this with Robert's attachment.

Behavior seems to vary.  Thunderbird preserves the source line endings,
for example.

>   * given that bundles are a "text" format, shouldn't the line endings not break
>     the format?

Absolutely.  We didn't anticipate this problem when developing the
original format, so the current format is vulnerable to these problems.
This experience led me to develop that patch-rio format in such a way
that it could withstand the forms of whitespace-munging that we know of.

Plans for the next-generation bundle format would make it also
impervious to whitespace-munging.

http://bazaar-vcs.org/BundleFormat0.10

But no one is currently working on that.

Aaron
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