line endings

[Jari Aalto]

* Thu 2008-01-31 Andre Haupt <andre at bitwigglers.org>
* Message-Id: 20080131101424.GA13005 at ahaupt-debian-vm.localdomain
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 11:47:53AM +0200, Alexander Belchenko wrote:
>> If you're using 1-byte encodings (including utf-8)
>> the problem with line-endings pretty simple.
>> 
> I really think a VCS should track the content of a file and must not
> change its content in whatsoever way. IMHO its not the job of a VCS to
> take care of such things like line endings.

People need solutions to the problems at hand *now*.

The missing handling of line ending in bzr is a problem in mixed
environments. One of the popularities of Svn is that is offers line
ending handling.

People can always choose not to use the line ending handling. That's why
it is opt-in:

  - per repository?
  - per directory
  - per files; regexps, globs?