On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 18:09 +1100, Peter Moulder wrote:
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:21:47AM +0100, jiho wrote:
I'm not sure there's really a need to continue counting points right now. It seems bazaar is the clear winner.
I've been composing the below before the above was posted.
Looking at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software, there is one startling difference among git,hg,bzr: it is stated that bzr cannot do end-of-line conversions, i.e. cannot adapt the end of line characters for text files such that they match the end of line style for the operating system under which it is used. (Status: http://bazaar-vcs.org/LineEndings)
I've never seen this sort of feature work out well in practice. Invariably, binary files get marked as text or vice-versa. I've seen way too many problems over the years with files getting erroneously marked as "binary" or "text" when they weren't.
As far as I know, it's also not a feature we've been using in Subversion.
-mental