Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 e30c3e9: Fix EOL decoding in vc-annotate with SVN back-end on MS-Windows

[Stefan Monnier]

> --- a/lisp/vc/vc-annotate.el
> +++ b/lisp/vc/vc-annotate.el
[...]
> +        ;; On DOS/Windows, "svn annotate" will produce CRLF EOLs even
> +        ;; if the original file has Unix EOLs, which will show ^M
> +        ;; characters in the Annotate buffer.  Prevent that by forcing
> +        ;; DOS EOL decoding.
> +        (if (memq system-type '(windows-nt ms-dos))
> +            (setq coding-system-for-read
> +                  (coding-system-change-eol-conversion coding-system-for-read
> +                                                       'dos)))

Why do we need to put this in vc-annotate rather than in vc-svn.el?


        Stefan