Re: Moving to bzr?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > 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.

Good.  So Bzr should be no worse than CVS in this respect.


        Stefan