[Python-Dev] hg extensions was Mercurial conversion repositories

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun Feb 27 16:12:01 CET 2011


On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 07:46:51 +0100
"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > Actually, it isn't *required* on each developer's setup, since we
> > now have a hook that refuses bogus changegroups (if needed, we can even
> > refuse individual changesets).  In most situations, even without the
> > eol extension line endings won't get modified anyway.
> 
> I think this is overly optimistic. Visual Studio will break all your
> files if you don't use that extension (and you actually use it to
> modify source code).

My assumption was that most developers don't use MSVC, so most of them
don't risk breaking eols ;)
True, for Windows devs it might be necessary to promote it.

Regards

Antoine.


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