Re: eol style differences

Branko Čibej wrote:

>Philip Martin wrote:
>
>
>>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?
>>
>>
>Because that's what people expect of a cross-platform version management
>tool. Sad, but true.
>
>

Oh, and I'd mention all those broken file formats (such as .dsp files)
that absolutely insist on a certain style of line endings. It's way
simpler to say svn:eol-style=CRLF than wonder if you've done the right
thing every time you roll a tarball on a Unix machine.

Observe that APR and httpd, which don't use Subversion and refuse to set
the -kb flag on the .dsp files, have separate tarballs for Unix and
Windows -- a situation which, to my taste, it a lot more horrible than
trying to get svn:eol-style to work.

-- 
Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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