Re: cr, lf on merge ... implement or use gnu diff option?

solo turn <soloturn99@yahoo.com> writes:

> is there a chance that subversion will just ommit this by turning it
> around and use a property for the rare case (makefiles)?
>

I don't think Subversion has plans to implement the opposite behavior
(i.e. make 'native' line-endings the automatic default on all files).

When the feature was written, people seemed to not want svn to muck
their data by default, which is what line-translation does. Maybe
people were simply scared. But I've not heard anyone screaming to
reverse the behavior. Maybe people were bitten too many times by CVS.

I think it was part of a general philosophy: "by default, svn will not
tweak your data. If you want that, you must deliberately activate
svn:eol-style or svn:keywords." It's certainly the safest
approach... it just comes at the expense of convenience.

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Received on Thu Nov 14 02:02:50 2002