Re: svn add and inconsistent line endings

On 24.02.2013 22:29, Bert Huijben wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stefan Küng [mailto:tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com]
>> Sent: zondag 24 februari 2013 20:55
>> To: dev_at_subversion.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: svn add and inconsistent line endings
>>
>> On 24.02.2013 20:45, Branko Čibej wrote:
>>> On 24.02.2013 19:47, Stefan Küng wrote:
>>>> On 24.02.2013 19:42, Branko Čibej wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Regarding automatcially changing line endings -- we don't do that for a
>>>>> very good reason: it's always been Subversion's policy to not touch file
>>>>> contents unless explicitly told to do so. The line endings could be
>>>>> inconsistent for reasons beyond Subversion's knowledge, and the
>> property
>>>>> might have been set erroneously. It's therefore up to the user to make
>>>>> sure which is the case.
>>>> I think if the property is set, then that's the ok from the user to
>>>> just fix the eols.
>>> Well, we decided differently 10 years ago for the reasons I listed
>>> above, and I see no new argument that would overturn that reasoning.
>> The reason being that the user gets his work interrupted by an error
>> which can only be corrected by manually editing the file, while the user
>> reasonably expects that to be corrected automatically without him to
>> intervene manually or even get notified about it - after all, he set the
>> eol property on the file, telling svn what eol he wants the file to have.
> The only reason a user should get into this problem when committing is if he edited the file him/herself.
>
> It is certainly not new behavior on commit. With the new svn:auto-props property the autoprops problems will be more common with 1.8+, but I think you can get in the inconsistent eol problem with at least 1.5 and probably earlier versions.

More likely 1.0 :)

-- Brane

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Branko Čibej
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