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

2010/1/9 Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>:
> 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.

I'm not. I just said I never use the Linux svn client, so the only
thing that ever touches the .svn directory is TSVN. As far as TSVN is
concerned it's a working copy on a network share (not ideal, I know,
but it is not being shared with other users). As far as Linux is
concerned it's not even a working copy, just a directory where my
source files live and where I build the Linux executable.

Simon

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