Issue923

Title Offer to enable CRLF translation in win32 Setup wizard
Priority wish Status chatting
Superseder Nosy List jglick, lcantey, mpm
Assigned To Topics windows

Created on 2008-01-09.15:57:30 by jglick, last changed 2008-02-08.22:32:33 by lcantey.

Messages
msg5157 (view) Author: lcantey Date: 2008-02-08.22:32:32
Matt, is win32text the final answer on "text-mode" for files?  Text/binary mode 
questions have popped up in a number of conversations recently, especially from 
people used to SVN and CVS.  I'd like to know whether to surface this solution in 
the installer.
msg4853 (view) Author: jglick Date: 2008-01-09.15:57:30
The standard Windows installation wizard creates a Mercurial.ini with win32text
CRLF translations commented out. Since it is likely that many (perhaps most)
Windows developers would want to use CRLF in text files, the Setup wizard should
offer to enable this mode with a checkbox. Otherwise people do not even realize
that such a capability exists in hg, or are not sure how to turn it on.

This is bad not just for the developer installing Hg, as they are liable to
commit new files to the repository with CRLF and thus cause problems for
non-Windows users.
History
Date User Action Args
2008-02-08 22:32:33lcanteysetstatus: unread -> chatting
nosy: + lcantey, mpm
messages: + msg5157
2008-01-09 15:57:30jglickcreate