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per branch rules

Asked by Albert Visagie

Currently rules for determining line-ending filtering behaviour is stored/configured for particular user. There is no way to add it to a branch. Ideally it should work a bit like .bzrignore.

Reference: http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/development/en/user-reference/eol-help.html

Noted that it is intended to work this way in a future version of bazaar, but it is kind of a show stopper for us.

Is there another way that I'm missing?

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Marius Kruger (amanica) said : 		#1

Unfortunately this has not been implemented yet.
Because of foreign format concerns [1], instead of having it work like .bzrignore, the current thinking is more to make it work like tags.
ie. rather store branch specific rules in: .bzr/branch/rules ,
which means that it will not be copied as part of the workingtree when branching/pulling etc. (although I think that could be remedied) and also it will not be versioned.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general/63732/focus=63738

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Craig Hewetson (craighewetson-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

I kind of like there to be inherited properties for bounded branches, rules of eof being one of them. (We work only with checkouts)
As requested here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general/63732/focus=63738

Will one implementation of this work equally well for checkouts and unbound branches? (Don't have to answer this, its more of a thought I'm throwing out there)

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Marius Kruger (amanica) said : 		#3

> Will one implementation of this work equally well for checkouts and unbound branches?
yes

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