Line ending translation extension

[Martin Geisler]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

> "Martin v. Löwis" writes:
>
>  > Bazaar has the *same* feature since 1.14:
>  > http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/bzr.dev/en/user-reference/bzr_man.html#end-of-line-conversion
>
> IIRC[1], it's considered mostly unsatisfactory by the Windows users
> (who nonetheless love bzr).

The linked page says: "Currently, rules are only supported in
$BZR_HOME/.bazaar/rules (or %BZR_HOME%/bazaar/2.0/rules on Windows).
Branch specific rules will be supported in a future verison of Bazaar."

I think $BZR_HOME means $HOME (typically), so this puts it in the same
category as win32text which you must also configure yourself in ~/.hgrc.

> In fact, bazaar at canonical.com is quite excited by the prospect that
> Mercurial might actually do something about the EOL problem so that
> they might get a working implementation too.

It would be great if we could benifit from each others experiences here.
I've not yet looked into the threads on the Bazaar mailing list, but I
think we should do that to avoid making the same mistakes twice.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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