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

[Alexander Belchenko]

Matthew D. Fuller пишет:
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 01:18:51PM +1000 I heard the voice of
> Ben Finney, and lo! it spake thus:
>> 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?
> 
> One thing to note is that their idea of tradeoffs will probably be
> rather different.  For instance, one of the big stumbling points of
> per-branch rules is heavy resistance to a $ROOT/.bzrrules file in the
> WT.  hg even puts _tags_ in the WT, so they won't care for a second
> about doing so, even if we shy away from it.

Actually hg don't care much and put even subrepositories config in the WT.

Perhaps because it's a dot files and they are invisible for ls?