Re: eol style differences

Branko ÄŒibej <brane@xbc.nu> writes:

> The intent of svn:eol-style was to get coherent results (diffs, that
> is) when people use all those editors out there that can't preserve
> the eol style.

You say "all those editors", are there lots of them? I find it hard
to imagine using such a tool. Do they change anything else? Spaces
to tabs, say, or trailing whitespace?

Even if there are (Windows?) editors that, say, accept LF line endings
and write CRLF line endings, is that a big problem? After the first
checkin, the one that translates the file, subsequent checkins aren't
really a problem. Or are we attempting to handle scenarios where
there are two broken editors, one doing LF-to-CRLF and the other doing
CRLF-to-LF? How likely is that?

Do we have any real-life examples where svn:eol-style fixes a problem?
Why should it be Subversion's job to solve this problem anyway?

-- 
Philip Martin
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