Szorc: Mercurial's Journey to and Reflections on Python 3

Posted Jan 14, 2020 13:21 UTC (Tue) by roc (subscriber, #30627)
In reply to: Szorc: Mercurial's Journey to and Reflections on Python 3 by dezgeg
Parent article: Szorc: Mercurial's Journey to and Reflections on Python 3

OK sure. The point is: you can preserve native filenames, and also ensure that repos are portable to any OS/filesystem that can represent the repo filenames correctly. That's what I want any VCS to do.

Szorc: Mercurial's Journey to and Reflections on Python 3

Posted Jan 14, 2020 15:51 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Do what git does with line endings, maybe?

They had a load of grief with mixed Windows/linux repos, so there's now a switch that says "convert cr/lf on checkout/checkin".

Add a switch that says "enforce valid utf-8/utf-16/Apple filenames, and sort out the mess at checkout/checkin".

If that's off by default, or on by default for new repos, or whatever, then at least NEW stuff will be sane, even if older stuff isn't.

Cheers,
Wol