FYI: Emacs develelopment team considers bzr

[Ville M. Vainio]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Jari Aalto <jari.aalto at cante.net> wrote:

>  The line ending issue is really *killer* *request* among many projects
>  that I've seen to evaluate bzr.
>
>  It would be very beneficial to to put develoment effort it, because
>  SVN converts would *love* to have easy transition to bzr.

I think the problem is that

- This is easy to fix in mostly-workable-does-not-break-anything manner
- People are looking for perfect to solution to save the whole world,
so stuff doesn't get done.

I suggested a bundled pre-commit hook that would check for wrong line
ending (or perhaps change to the wrong direction, LF -> CRLF?) and
complain, but no luck with that (even this would be the answer for
most developers now using svn). It would prompt people to switch /
configure their tools to work in polite manner.

To go a bit further, even a one-way filter to convert CRLF in working
tree to LF for certain file extensions (that are always known to be
text files - e.g known source extensions) would be enough for 95% of
the users. Conversion from LF to CR LF is not necessary.

Or hell, just grab the filter solution hg is using.

Practicality beats purity.

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