Bazaar as Subversion replacement

[Marius Kruger]

On 1/16/07, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:

> If .bzrignore at the root of the branch is enough to support ignored
> files, wouldn't .bzrlineendings suffice for specifying which files need
> what sort of line endings?
>
>   *.py = native
>   *.bat = CRLF
>   *.sh = LF
>   subdir/somesortofexception.sh = binary
>
> Dealing with per-file properties like Subversion's svn:ignores or
> svn:eol-style is a Big Pain(TM), and it still requires each developer to
> either set up a configuration file correctly, or manually specify the
> properties for every newly added file/directory.
>
> If the number of per-branch configurable options is going to be larger,
> maybe it is time to consider a .bzrbranch.cfg with sections, e.g.
> something like
>
>   [ignore]
>   *.py
>   *.svn
>
>   [eol-style]
>   *.py = native
>
>   [pre-commit]
>   hooks/precommit.py
>
>   # etc.
>
I think this is brilliant!
Then we could (later if required) also add a section
[strip-trailing-white-space]
to have patterns for which files we would like white space to be
automatically
stripped on commit.
[now don't nobody swear me for this!]

regards
marius (kruger)

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