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[python-committers] DVCS and windows line endings.

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 12:18:48 CET 2009 
Brett Cannon wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 21:11, Mark Hammond <mhammond at skippinet.com.au
> <mailto:mhammond at skippinet.com.au>> wrote:
>     But my wider point was that there doesn't seem to be a required
>     level of functionality, or even a blanket statement along the lines
>     of "native eol support must offer as much functionality as svn".
>      eg, what would, and would not, be considered a "deal-breaker" in
>     this area?  Anything?
> 
> 
> If windows users get screwed that's a deal breaker. I have not looked at
> the line endings section of the PEP yet, though, to know if they are at
> the moment.

That sounds like a "not worse than SVN" to me (which means allowing it
to be set on a per-file basis, but also being able to set it up so that
checked in text files were marked that way by default).

Cheers,
Nick.

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