Comment 5 for bug 159021

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Alexander Belchenko wrote:
> John A Meinel ?8H5B:
>> 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?)
>
> I'm suggest to use 7-zip. It's open source, understand many formats,
> and never touch line-endings as I can see.

Agreed. The only thing I miss with 7-zip is simple drag-and-drop to Explorer.
But otherwise it has a huge supported set of formats and is free.

http://www.7zip.org

John
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