svn and automatic line ending

Greetings,

Last April Jim Fulton from Zope began a thread on the subversion dev
list about setting svn:eol-style=native by default for anything that
svn's heuristic considers text.
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2004-04/1363.shtml

I'm having the same issue -- importing a large repository (1+gb; it's
TeX Live, http://tug.org/texlive/), with new files being added not
infrequently (whenever there's a new TeX package, basically), and with
dozens of file extensions. Attempting to specify all the extensions
would be a nightmare. And so I would like to support Jim's idea of
making the "binary mime type property" error into a warning (or just
silencing it).

I'll repeat the problematic scenario from that thread, since it was some
months ago. With the config settings:

   [miscellany]
   enable-auto-props = yes

   [auto-props]
   * = svn:eol-style=native

the proposal is to make

     $ svn add text1 image1.gif text2 image2.gif
     A text1
     svn: File 'image1.gif' has binary mime type property
     $

continue to add text2 and image2.gif, instead of giving up after the error.

I understand that the binary/text heuristic is not perfect, and files
might be incorrectly marked with eol-style=native. We can explicitly
fix those. But having it guess correctly the vast majority of the time
would be a huge boon.

From what I saw in that thread, there was no unalterable opposition to
letting the add succeed, but the code is unchanged on the trunk (rev 12744)
as I see it at:
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/subversion/libsvn_wc/props.c
(line 955ff)

If anything will make the change more likely to happen in the next
release, I'm happy to do it if I can. For my own immediate purposes, I
just deleted the check, which is working fine as far as I can tell.

Thanks for the great software.

karl@freefriends.org

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Received on Sat Jan 15 22:32:24 2005