On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 12:41 -0600, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> On Nov 5, 2004, at 9:29 AM, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
>
> > David Mohr <damailings@mcbf.net> writes:
> >> I was working on a file with DOS line endings under Linux and then
> >> there
> >> was a conflict in a commit, so subversion placed the conflict markers
> >> into the file. However, I assume since I was using Linux, it placed
> >> the
> >> conflict markers with Unix line endings, which made the line endings
> >> in
> >> the file inconsistent.
> >> This bug is of course not hard to work around, as I assume will delete
> >> the conflict markers before the next commit, so the line endings will
> >> be
> >> sane again. But still, it's a small bug. Should I submit this
> >> somewhere?
> >> I could not find a way to submit issues on the web page.
> >
> > If you have an account at subversion.tigris.org, with 'observer' role,
> > then you can create issues, following the guidelines at
> >
> > http://subversion.tigris.org/project_issues.html
> >
> > If you could write a small script to demonstrate this bug (a
> > reproduction recipe) that would be very helpful. Just attach it to
> > the new issue.
> >
>
> I really wonder if it's a bug, though.
>
> At the moment, I think you're right: svn is using APR_EOL for
> conflict-marker line endings, which is automatically defined by APR to
> be the native line ending for whatever OS you happen to be using at the
> moment.
>
> The only way svn could be "smarter" here is to scan the entire file,
> notice what the line-endings are, and then decide to use those same
> line-endings for conflict markers. But that's an awfully expensive
> operation. (And what if the file has inconsistent line endings?)
>
> It makes me ask: why aren't using the svn:eol-style property? I'm
> willing to bet that if "svn:eol-style" were set to "CRLF", then the
> conflict markers would use CRLF also.
OK, that's exactly why I sent this to the user's list instead of
immediately trying to open up a bug :-). Thanks for the advice, seems to
be the solution to the problem. Hmm, I should've RTFM first, it's not
even that hidden in the book...
~David
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Received on Fri Nov 5 20:47:21 2004