line endings

Patrick Drechsler patrick at pdrechsler.de
Mon Feb 25 07:31:33 CST 2008


Bela Babik <teki321 at gmail.com> writes:

>> the hgbook states that:
>>
>> ,----[ http://hgbook.red-bean.com/hgbookch2.html ]
>> | Note: The Windows version of Mercurial does not automatically  
>> convert
>> | line endings between Windows and Unix styles. If you want to share
>> | work with Unix users, you must do a little additional configuration
>> | work. XXX Flesh this out.
>> `----
>>
>> What is the best working practice for this issue?

> The windows installers are installing the win32extensions by default:
> http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/Win32Extension
>
> If you installing it from the source, you can set it up manually.

Thanks teki, this got me on the correct track!

Disabling this plugin gives me the expected behaviour (=not changing the
line endings of the files).

Cheers,

Patrick 
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