From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Moving to bzr? Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:23:52 +0200 Message-ID: References: <878wprlz8d.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> <496810B0.10002@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231579462 19734 80.91.229.12 (10 Jan 2009 09:24:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:24:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 10 10:25:32 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 1LLa5z-0004u1-Df for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:25:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49145 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LLa4j-0005sg-CE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:24:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LLa4O-0005c2-Bn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:23:52 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LLa4N-0005bQ-Qr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:23:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33058 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LLa4N-0005bB-FY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:23:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout5.012.net.il ([84.95.2.13]:24937) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LLa4M-0008Pf-EK; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:23:50 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout5.012.net.il by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KD9001000MHOB00@i_mtaout5.012.net.il>; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:23:56 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.238.249]) by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KD900D770RVW850@i_mtaout5.012.net.il>; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:23:56 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <496810B0.10002@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:107746 Archived-At: > X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=DNS_FROM_RFC_POST > autolearn=no version=3.1.0 > Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:06:24 +0800 > From: Jason Rumney > CC: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@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. Agreed.