Re: inconsistent newlines: "native" seems not to work

Peter Mounce wrote:
> Hello Gavin,
>
>> Quoth Mattias Thorslund:
>>
>>> One of my project developers is using Tortoise SVN, and receives the
>>> "inconsistent newlines" error. His editor is XMLShell (really MSXML
>>> 4.0), and all files he edits are XML files.
>>>
>>> The svn:eol-style property is "native" on the file on the Subversion
>>> server. We've tried renaming the file that causes the error, and
>>> doing a SVN Update (so that we'll get a fresh download of the file
>>> from the server), but after editing, we still get the "inconsistent
>>> newlines" ("Inconsistent line ending style") error.
>>>
>>> Is there something else that I am missing, or is the Windows CRLF
>>> line-ending style not applies when svn:eol-style is "native"?
>>>
>> It sounds like the editor is changing the EOL style, perhaps only on
>> some lines (some ill-mannered editors do this).
>>
>> Try throwing the file at a hex viewer/editor both before and after
>> editing, and make sure that all your LFs have CRs. Most likely you'll
>> find that on some lines you have LFs alone without CRs, indicating
>> that the editor probably opened the file in binary mode rather than
>> text mode. In this case, you should probably convert the file to
>> LF-only, assuming that everybody using the file is using the same
>> editor. Alternatively, get a better editor :)
>
>
> Notepad2 has a nice feature that lets you normalise line-endings for a
> whole file at once. File | Line Endings | [pick one]. It will also
> show you which ones are currently there.
>

Thanks, both. I will examine the situation more closely, and also look
for a better editor. Thanks for the tip about notepad2.

I am still puzzled about how the situation arises. Am I misunderstanding
the meaning of svn:eol-style "native"? Does it not mean that when I get
the file from the server, the line endings get converted to the local
format? So, on Windows, the file would have CRLF line ends, and a
Windows native editor surely wouldn't insert any other kind of line
ends...but then where did the inconsistency arise?

Again, thanks

Mattias

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