Re: TortoiseSVN Diff/Patch creates files with mixed Unix and Win32 line endings when creating patch from pure unix files.

On 11/20/06, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn@gmail.com> wrote:
> demerphq wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've discovered that when producing a unified diff of a file with unix
> > line endings using Tortoise SVN produces files with mixed Win32/Unix
> > line endings. The diff headers have Win32 line endings but the rest
> > does not. This makes many unix patch(1) programs unhappy and renders
> > the patch inexplicably unappliable and apparently corrupt. Running
> > dos2unix on the file first removes the spurious win32 line endings.
>
> Actually, it's Subversion that creates the patch. You get the same
> result if you use the official Subversion command line client and do an:
> svn diff . > patchfile.diff

Ah, ok. I had a feeling it might be, but wasnt sure.

Ill report this as a bug to the svn folks.

> To avoid such problems:
> set the svn:eol-style property to whatever you need. I'd recommend 'native'.

Im not familiar with this, but I will look into it, thanks.

Thanks for the reply, and sorry for the noise.
Yves

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