[Python-Dev] Mercurial migration: help needed (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Sep 5 15:26:07 CEST 2009

Le samedi 05 septembre 2009 à 15:19 +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" a écrit :

No. It's about files that must, when checked out on Windows, have CRLF endings, and, when checked out on Unix, have LF endings - i.e. all the ..py, .c, .h, and .rst files, plus a couple of others which don't require specific treatment.

IOW, it's about the default behavior, and the majority of new files.

Ok, sorry for the misunderstanding and the lost bandwidth.

In addition, a DVCS brings in another problem dimension: when people push their changes, they have already committed them - and perhaps not even they, but a contributor from which they had been pulling changes. The bogus change may have been weeks ago, so the subversion solution (of rejecting the commit to happen) doesn't quite work that well for a DVCS.

I don't think this problem is really serious. If the push fails, you can just commit (locally) a new changeset that repairs the EOL or indentation problems, and push the whole bunch of changesets again (I assume the server-side hook will not examine changesets individually, but only the last of them?).

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