[Python-Dev] Mercurial migration: help needed

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Sep 5 17:09:39 CEST 2009


Terry Reedy <tjreedy <at> udel.edu> writes:
> 
> If essentially all text files need fixed line endings on Windows, then 
> hg really needs this built in. Has it really not been used much on Windows?

Mercurial is used by e.g. Mozilla, which is not really known for poor Windows
support (chances are many Firefox developers are Windows-based). I wonder
whether they have written their own extension, or if they simply rely on their
text editors to do the right thing.





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