bzr does not tolerate line feeds terminating metadata

Bug #1224421 reported by Adrian Wilkins
6
This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Bazaar
Confirmed
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

This is a very minor thing ;

Sometimes you move folders around and end up with broken references in files like .bzr/branch/location and the obvious fix is to open the file and edit it to the new location.

The format of these files does not tolerate a line feed at the end of the file.

Many common Unix text editors insert a line feed at the end of a file without prompting and make it awkward to remove it (e.g. vim).

Cue having to open a hex editor to fix this.

Suggest it would be easy to strip a terminating line feed from these files to make it easier to perform this kind of hackery, which lets face it, is what open systems are all about.

John A Meinel (jameinel)
Changed in bzr:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
Jelmer Vernooij (jelmer)
tags: added: check-for-breezy
To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.