Re: svn diff and native eol style

Tobias Ringstrom wrote:

> svn diff does not respect the EOL style, at least not when it is set
> to native. Before the diff is calculated or an external diff is
> called, the two files to be diffed are converted to NL EOL style.
> This means that on e.g. Win32, the diff chunks contain NL EOLs for
> files with native EOL style, which of course breaks patch among other
> things.
>
> I think the way to fix the problem is to convert the two files to the
> correct EOL style before diffing. I'm planning to write an issue
> about this, but I wanted to see if anyone had any comments first.

I don't think we should convert at all. If the files differ only in the
EOL style, I think diff should show that (unless given an ignore-eol or
ighore-whitespace option).

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