Please help Python team decide on a VCS

[Doug Lee]

B BART Group

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 10:06:20PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> I've finally gotten around to integrating all the comments and  
> fleshing out the workflow scenarios.  The only open questions I don't  
> have good answers for are on CRLF->LF support and case-insensitive  
> file system support.  On the latter, all I can say is that I share  
> branches between Linux and OS X all the time.  I did a `bzr mv Mailman  
> mailman` on Linux (obviously) and when I pulled the changes into my OS  
> X branch, everything worked perfectly.
> 
> Having no Windows machines, I can't really say anything about CRLF->LF.

I use Bazaar on FreeBSD (LF), MacOS (probably still LF because I do it
from shells), and Windows (CR/LF).  The latter two are
case-insensitive.  I admit though that I still have the following
blockers for full migration to Bazaar for all projects:

1.  CR/LF issues in actual repository conversion from CVS.  Tailor
works there but doesn't do branches/tags so nicely IIRC.  cvsps-import
does branches but does tags as branches rather than with `bzr tag'.
The newer fast-import method I never finished playing with, so maybe
that will help there when I can get to it.

2.  Case sensitivity problems when external programs change the case
of a file name when saving an update in Windows.  It hasn't happened
often, but it sure causes me trouble when it does.

All that said, I anxiously await resolution to these, and I thank all
who I see actively working on these things.