On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 at 17:30, Oleg Broytmann wrote:
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:02:53AM -0400, Jason R. Coombs wrote:
It seems that within the hg repository, everything has been converted to LF for line endings. I suspect this is because HG provides no integrated support for line-ending conversions and because the hg to svn bridge is probably running on a Unix OS.
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/FAQ#FAQ.2BAC8-TechnicalDetails.What_ab...
Linked from that is: http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/Win32TextExtension which says: "The filter specification can however not be managed by the repository..." (I'm not clear what is being filtered on, but it looks like it might be the _content_ of the files.) The above statement seems like a really odd design choice, with the potential for causing considerable developer coordination headaches. Any Mercurial boffins want to talk about how this works in practice? --David