Re: Moving to bzr?

[Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>]

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.