Re: Bug (release blocker?): svn 1.5 eol-style:native on windows breaks version 1.4 wc

John Peacock wrote:
> Norbert Unterberg wrote:
>> Who performs the CRLF to LF conversion during a commit, the server or
>> the client?
>
> The client code performs any conversions (from the local text-base,
> which is an exact representation of what the server sent). This is
> because there may be keyword substitution going on as well.
>
> The server normally stores the files as LF, but you can get into a state
> where files contain CRLF, but this is usually caused by external tools
> messing with the line endings when they shouldn't.

Unless I'm mistaken, this is inaccurate.

The server, by default (no svn:eol-style set) stores files in whatever way
they are represented by the committing client.

Files with svn:eol-style set to 'CR', 'LF', or 'CRLF' are stored in the
repository with the specified line ending styles.

Files with svn:eol-style set to 'native' are stored in the repository with
'LF'-style line endings, so that successive commits from different OSes
don't repeatedly cause every-line-changed-line-endings types of churn in the
file's versioned contents.

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