our users did not care about line endings up to now, and i don't
think we should introduce this now, in 2002, cause of svn, by letting
users add a property cause there is one makefile in our 5000 text
files.
for me there seem two solutions:
- we can set diff to ignore line
endings on text files.
this seems to be the simplest solution
but you have to provide some exception
for make files ... cause the line-ending
matters (with svn:eol-style=lf eg?)
- we can set svn:eol-style=native
as default for text files.
in rare cases (for makefiles e.g) we would
set it differently.
which still leaves us with: what do i do
with a file i get from unix (samba eg.),
and i'm now working on win and my diff
complains ...
so basically it boils down to:
i don't care what the server stores, as long the client does not
bother about line-endings, no matter if i compare files with unix-,
win-, or whatever line-endings.
ps:
and i think your winnt example is perferct for "its not ridiculous,
cause no svn user cares, and no svn user will ever notice it.". and
good software has the property: you don't notice it, cause it does it
FOR you.
we, btw, do have a mixed environment, and we try to replace cvs,
microsoft vss, and some other strange unusable proprietary tool.
--- Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> wrote:
> svn only "canonicalizes" line endings if you set the svn:eol-style
> property on a file to "native". Otherwise it treats all data as
> data. Wouldn't it be ridiculous if you had a completely win32
> project, and the server stored everything as LF in the repository?
> Of
> course it would.
> Have you read about svn:eol-style in the Book?
>
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/book.html#svn-ch-6-sect-2.1
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