Comment 3 for bug 159021
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| John A Meinel (jameinel) wrote Re: Unkown branch format after copy from Linux and Win32 | #3 |
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(Get the code!)
Line endings are the problem.
And if your utility is changing all of the line endings, it is potentially corrupting other files. We store most of your data in compressed form. But that means that you might randomly have "\n" characters in those files. Which means they would be randomly expanded to "\r\n".
I would highly recommend either just using Bazaar itself to create the local branches, or just using a different decompression tool. (Maybe there is a flag to tell it not to break all of your files?)
We *could* be more lenient about the format strings. But I think in this case, it is better to detect that there has been modification, and just give a warning about possible corruption.