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Re: Bug (release blocker?): svn 1.5 eol-style:native on windows breaks version 1.4 wc

From: Norbert Unterberg <nunterberg_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:36:18 +0200

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Erik Huelsmann <ehuels_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/17/08, Norbert Unterberg <nunterberg_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am using TortoiseSVN 1.5 rc3 (based on svn 1.5-rc9) on Windows XP.
>>
>> One of my collegues gets strange merge conflicts while using his svn
>> 1.4 client after I checked in some changes. The files all have
>> svn:eol-style set to "native". The server is still running on svn
>> 1.3.2
>> Analysis showed that svn 1.4 clients always stored the text file in LF
>> encoding regardless of the eol-style. The file in the wc itself is
>> correctly stored in CRLF style on Windows.
>>
>> However, after commiting with my 1.5 client and updating with 1.4 on
>> the other machine, the files in the text-base were also stored in CRLF
>> style. When merging, this generates merge conflicts for the entiere
>> file because every line is different.
>>
>> If this is problem is still present in the current RC, I'd say this
>> could be a release blocker since it breaks all the older clients
>> working copies....
>
> Are you sure the working copy you merged into as well as the merge
> start *and* merge end all had eol-style native? If not, that could be
> the problem.

Yes I am sure. We add the eol-style property via auto-props and never
change them manually.
Even without the merge, the single commit I did on the file pushed the
CRLF into the server, without any change to the eol-style flag.

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