Re: Moving to bzr?

[Eli Zaretskii]

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> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:06:24 +0800
> From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden
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> Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > As of now, Bzr doesn't do any line-end manipulation.
> > There's some work in progress to be able to do line-end conversions,
> > which seems like it may appear within the next 6 months or so.
> > Last I heard it didn't seem like we need such a feature for
> > Emacs's repository.
> >   
> 
> For Emacs, we want to keep line ends as they are in the repository when 
> checking out to other platforms, and we trust developers to use Emacs 
> for their editing, not some other editor that screws with line-endings.
> 
> As long as whatever bzr developers finally implement allows us to stay 
> with this, without having to mark files as binary and lose the ability 
> to do text diffs, then it will be an improvement over cvs.

Agreed.