$ svn --version
svn, version 1.4.5 (r25188)
   compiled Aug 22 2007, 20:49:04

Copyright (C) 2000-2006 CollabNet.
Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.tigris.org/
This product includes software developed by CollabNet (http://www.Collab.Net/).

The following repository access (RA) modules are available:

* ra_dav : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV (DeltaV) protocol.
  - handles 'http' scheme
  - handles 'https' scheme
* ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network protocol.
  - handles 'svn' scheme
* ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
  - handles 'file' scheme


$ echo ========
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$ svnadmin create _repos/

$ svn checkout file://localhost/c:/svn_bugs/svn_property_loss/_repos/ tree/
Checked out revision 0.

$ mkdir tree/trunk/

$ mkdir tree/branches/

$ svn add tree/*
A         tree\branches
A         tree\trunk

$ svn commit tree/ --username=user -m initial structure
Adding         tree\branches
Adding         tree\trunk

Committed revision 1.

$ rm -Rf tree/

$ svn checkout file://localhost/c:/svn_bugs/svn_property_loss/_repos/trunk/ trunk/
Checked out revision 1.

$ svn add trunk/file.txt
A         trunk\file.txt

$ svn propset svn:eol-style native trunk/file.txt
property 'svn:eol-style' set on 'trunk\file.txt'

$ svn commit trunk/ -m initial version of files
Adding         trunk\file.txt
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 2.

$ svn propget svn:eol-style file://localhost/c:/svn_bugs/svn_property_loss/_repos/trunk/file.txt
native

$ svn copy file://localhost/c:/svn_bugs/svn_property_loss/_repos/trunk/ -r HEAD file://localhost/c:/svn_bugs/svn_property_loss/_repos/branches/branch/ -m created branch

Committed revision 3.

$ svn checkout file://localhost/c:/svn_bugs/svn_property_loss/_repos/branches/branch/ branch/
A    branch\file.txt
Checked out revision 3.

$ svn commit branch/ -m edited files
Sending        branch\file.txt
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 4.

$ svn propget svn:eol-style branch/file.txt
native

$ svn propget svn:eol-style file://localhost/c:/svn_bugs/svn_property_loss/_repos/branches/branch/file.txt
native

$ echo ========
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$ svn update trunk/
At revision 4.

$ svn del trunk/file.txt
D         trunk\file.txt

$ svn copy file://localhost/c:/svn_bugs/svn_property_loss/_repos/branches/branch/file.txt -r HEAD trunk/file.txt
A         trunk\file.txt

$ svn propset svn:eol-style native trunk/file.txt
property 'svn:eol-style' set on 'trunk\file.txt'

$ svn propget svn:eol-style trunk/file.txt
native

$ svn commit trunk/ -m replaced files
Replacing      trunk\file.txt

Committed revision 5.

$ svn update trunk/
At revision 5.

$ svn propget svn:eol-style file://localhost/c:/svn_bugs/svn_property_loss/_repos/trunk/file.txt
native

$ svn propget svn:eol-style trunk/file.txt

$ echo *** that was the problem ***
*** that was the problem ***

$ rm -Rf trunk/

$ svn checkout file://localhost/c:/svn_bugs/svn_property_loss/_repos/trunk/ trunk/
A    trunk\file.txt
Checked out revision 5.

$ svn propget svn:eol-style trunk/file.txt
native

$ echo *** worked around? shows that the problem was in the wc ***
*** worked around? shows that the problem was in the wc ***

$ echo ========
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