EOL extension: Migrating from win32text

[Martin Geisler]

Colin Caughie <c.caughie at indigovision.com> writes:

> Hi Martin,
>
> I have a suggestion for the hgeol extension that I think would help
> users such as ourselves who are looking to migrate from win32text.
> What would you think about adding a global option that tells hgeol to
> simulate win32text behaviour if no .hgeol file is found?
>
> My concern with migrating is that we have a lot of repositories, some
> with several active branches (and some with branches that we think are
> dead but which have a habit of unexpectedly coming back to life when a
> customer finds a problem in an old release). So it would be difficult
> to ensure that there will always be an .hgeol at the tip of each of
> these repositories.
>
> I think this option would help to prevent messed up line endings
> during the transition period. Eventually we'd hope to turn it off once
> we have .hgeol files everywhere.
>
> What do you think?

It would certainly make it easier for people to migrate if we can tell
them to enable eol and that's it.

It should be super easy to do this: just export our decode and encode
filters under the names used by the win32text extension.

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Martin Geisler

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