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


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