[Python-Dev] pymigr: Ask for hgeol-checking hook.

[Antoine Pitrou]

Martin, I have now enabled the eol hook on the test repo (a quick test
seemed to show it works). Could you test again?

Regards

Antoine.


On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 19:23:49 +0100
"Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Am 26.02.2011 19:13, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:
> > 
> >> In Mercurial, it's just a hook, and optional. So we can't be sure all
> >> users use it correctly - and in my (limited) experience with Mercurial,
> >> chances are high that users will make mistakes in that respect (i.e.
> >> in one out of one cross-platform projects, a committer had issues
> >> with CRLF, leading to catastrophic repository corruption).
> > 
> > “Catastrophic” repository “corruption”? This sounds very strongly like
> > an urban legend.
> > Perhaps some files had later to be fixed. But that shouldn't be out of
> > the realm of normal Mercurial commands (aka "edit file to fix endings,
> > then hg commit and hg push").
> 
> It actually happened to me, so please trust me that it's not a legend.
> Yes, I could fix it with hg commands, and a lot of text editing.
> It took me a day, I considered the repository corrupted so that I
> actually had to branch from the last ok revision, and redo all checkins
> since (I also discarded changes which I didn't chose to redo). It was
> a real catastrophe to me.
> 
> Since the changes actually changed all lines, "hg blame" became useless,
> which was unacceptable.
> 
> Regards,
> Martin