Re: Changing the behaviour of eol-style "native"

2010/1/9 Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 13:29, Stu Redman <sturedman_at_gmx.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm working on a cross platform project where most files have the
>> attribute eol-style "native". I'm using TSVN on Windows and replicate
>> the files to a Linux machine.
>> Now TSVN checks out "native" files as CRLF, but many files (like shell
>> scripts) do not work on Linux in this mode. What I'd like to do is
>> switch the "native" mode on TSVN so that "native" files get checked out
>> in LF format. Is there an option in TSVN for this? If not - is it
>> possible to add this as a new feature?
>
> "Native' is exactly that - native to the OS which checked out the
> working copy. Working copies are not meant to be shared between users
> or operating systems.
>
> Check out a separate WC on the Linux machine, or change your eol-style
> to LF. But this is really busy work - any text editor worth using in
> 2010, on any platform, should handle any EOL style perfectly fine, and
> programs which read text files for processing should be coded
> appropriately to handle any EOL style as well; it's not like CRLF line
> endings just appeared yesterday.

Editors should be OK, but I know from experience that shell scripts
and makefiles that have CRLF line endings just fail with an unhelpful
error message. Using svn:eol-style=LF for those files that need it is
an easy solution.

I have to admit that I have done exactly this. We had a project a
while back which could only be built on Linux, and we are a Windows
shop. We had a single Linux server set up to share the user home
directories using SAMBA. I could then map the Linux share in Windows,
checkout a working copy using TSVN and edit using my familiar windows
editor. The only part that required Linux was the build itself, which
could be done using a PuTTY session. Since I never used a Linux svn
client, there was no WC compatibility issue.

Simon

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