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Re: The tar format problem continues

From: Sander Striker <striker_at_apache.org>
Date: 2004-03-17 21:10:30 CET

On Wed, 2004-03-17 at 21:01, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> --On Wednesday, March 17, 2004 10:11 AM -0800 Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
> wrote:
>
> > But even if we use star. It doesn't solve the problem with winzip.
> > Winzip aparently doesn't read ustar formated archives. Which is the
> > POSIX standard tar format. So even if we use star to produce ustar
> > formats, winzip won't be able to handle them.
>
> The line-endings will be corrupted even if we were able to get WinZip to
> read it. I think the solution here is to create a CRLF-terminated checkout
> and zip it up and post it alongside the LF-terminated tarballs. I don't
> think we could trick a Unix svn client to create a CRLF checkout when
> eol-style is 'native' in the repository - although that could be a *very*
> useful feature here.

I thought we discussed at some point that this would be a feature of
the export command; telling what the 'native' EOL style is. Something
like svn export --eol-style=CRLF URL.

But we may have revisited that. Or, simply never got around to
implementing it.

Sander

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