[PATCH 1 of 2 STABLE] diffhelpers: add canstripcr=True to fix_newline

Sean Farley sean at farley.io
Tue Apr 25 18:19:07 EDT 2017


Augie Fackler <raf at durin42.com> writes:

>> On Apr 25, 2017, at 17:11, Sean Farley <sean at farley.io> wrote:
>> 
>>> The problem is new python code won't work with old .so files. But that does
>>> not sound like a strict rule we have to maintain. Bisect users could still
>>> build the new version first and start bisecting without rebuild.
>> 
>> I'm not sure if we want to change this policy (perhaps) but mpm rarely
>> broke this in years past:
>
> It's fine with me to require people that are bisecting to need a newer .so - that's mostly what you should have sitting around anyway for perf reasons.

In the first email, mpm notes that this will break people that 'hg pull
--update' as a way to 'compile'. I think that's a bigger problem than
bisecting, in this particular case.
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