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

From: David Glasser <glasser_at_davidglasser.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:40:09 -0700

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 6:53 AM, Norbert Unterberg <nunterberg_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> I am using TortoiseSVN 1.5 rc3 (based on svn 1.5-rc9) on Windows XP.
>
> One of my collegues gets strange merge conflicts while using his svn
> 1.4 client after I checked in some changes. The files all have
> svn:eol-style set to "native". The server is still running on svn
> 1.3.2
> Analysis showed that svn 1.4 clients always stored the text file in LF
> encoding regardless of the eol-style. The file in the wc itself is
> correctly stored in CRLF style on Windows.
>
> However, after commiting with my 1.5 client and updating with 1.4 on
> the other machine, the files in the text-base were also stored in CRLF
> style. When merging, this generates merge conflicts for the entiere
> file because every line is different.
>
> If this is problem is still present in the current RC, I'd say this
> could be a release blocker since it breaks all the older clients
> working copies....

Norbert, this does seem like a problem.

Can you give us a detailed recipe that consistently reproduces it?

Without that, we're reduced to asking little questions step by step
like we have been for the past few hours, which really isn't
productive :-)

--dave

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David Glasser | glasser@davidglasser.net | http://www.davidglasser.net/
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