On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 13:30 -0600, Alex Rousskov wrote: > 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.
This page was mainly written by a bunch of folk that haven't sent in many patches to bzr at all (other than Alexander Belchenko, who is the main windows developer). > > 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. That script is essentially the solution finally agreed on at the London bzr meeting; to hook in and filter files into/out of the bzr codebase. It should be done quite soon - we all consider it very important. -Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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