line endings

[Stuart McGraw]

Marcus Sundman wrote:
> Stuart McGraw <smcg4191 at frii.com> wrote:
>> So my question is, how does one use Bazaar so that
>> branches created on a Windows box will have the right
>> line endings?  Is there some process I overlooked?
>> A plugin?  A command option I missed?  Some third party
>> add-in somewhere?  Does Bazaar development have any
>> plans regarding this?
> 
> Well, before changing line breaks one has to know the encoding of the
> file (or otherwise it might break completely), 

How many encodings exist were this is actually a
problem?  And how often are they used?  How often
does the confluence of using such an encoding, and
requiring auto l.e. conversion actually occur in
the real world?  Its not a problem in the encodings
I have to deal with (the common 1-byte iso encodings,
utf8, iso-2022-jp, sjis).  I have not heard any
screams of outrage from the TortoiseCVS folks.
How about from the Mercurial folks who also have
this?

And how would those numbers compare to the numbers
of files handled by people like me, who develop multi-
platform code?  I submit that the latter number is
many, many orders of magnitude greater than the former.
Given that such processing can be made completely
optional, encoding breakage does not seem like a
strong objection to me.

Binary file breakage might be a little stronger but
looking at existing experience with other systems
does the (small) risk outweigh the IMO much greater
problems created for the common case of multi-platform
development?  (Again we're talking about something
purely opt-in.)

> doesn't yet support that I don't think we'll see line break changing
> implemented anytime soon.

That's unfortunate.  Its a show-stopper for my use
of Bazaar.