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

On 09.01.2010 20:22, Simon Large wrote:
> 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.

You should never ever share a working copy between OS! Always check out
a separate working copy.

Stefan

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