From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Moving to bzr? Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:45:25 -0500 Message-ID: References: <878wprlz8d.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <496810B0.10002@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231620347 4558 80.91.229.12 (10 Jan 2009 20:45:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:45:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jason Rumney To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 10 21:46:58 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LLkjQ-0003P9-0Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:46:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42807 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LLki9-0003Lm-OW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:45:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LLki5-0003LX-2a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:45:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LLki2-0003LI-M6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:45:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34717 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LLki2-0003LF-DM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:45:30 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:57403 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LLkhz-0004iv-Nc; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:45:27 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AsoEANSXaEnO+LIy/2dsb2JhbACBa85fhW+BbA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.37,245,1231131600"; d="scan'208";a="32126044" Original-Received: from 206-248-178-50.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.178.50]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 10 Jan 2009 15:45:26 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 54D078706; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:45:25 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:23:52 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:107768 Archived-At: >> > 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