On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 11:29 +0200, Guido Serassio wrote:

> There is a very big problem using bzr on Windows:
> 
> The files downloaded by bzr are in Unix text format, while
> CVS file are in DOS text format.
> 
> This will totally broke the Windows build environment: Visual Studio 
> doesn't like at all project files in Unix text format.
> 
> Ironically this problem will help for the MSYS+MinGW environment 
> support ... :-(
> 
> I have found this discussion: http://bazaar-vcs.org/LineEndings, and 
> here it seems that there is nothing to do ....

Wow. Is this really true? I would have probably voted against bzr
migration if I knew that bzr still has no proper support for line
endings. I assumed that if poor subversion can handle them nicely, bzr
would have superb support for this basic and core feature.

> There is a way to force the text file format ?

The only thing I can suggest at this point (besides yelling at bzr
people), is to have a script that goes through all the files and flips
the line endings before and after each bzr session. I do not know what
scripting you have on Windows, but the script should be simple.

Alex.


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