Lessons learned from handling text end-of-line conventions?

[Ben Finney]

Ian Clatworthy <ian.clatworthy at canonical.com> writes:

> I don't have a lot of advice for the hg folk because, practically, I
> can't point to a good solution on our side yet. 'bzr help rules' may
> help them understand our direction w.r.t. finer configuration control.

Thanks. I appreciate that there's no solution to show yet, but it's just
as important to be forewarned of trouble.

> In addition, it's been 10x harder than I expected it to be 18 months
> back when I first took on this challenge. Part of that has been on the
> technical side (it still doesn't Just Work but will hopefully by 2.0).
> Differences of opinion wrt design tradeoffs (e.g. storage of metadata
> in the tree) have been equally frustrating.

This is exactly the sort of thing I'd like to point them to. Do you have
a representative thread showing these tradeoff discussions and
frustrations encountered?

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Ben Finney