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Re: "inconsistent newlines" - how to fix?

From: stephen meechan <mgvk68_at_dsl.pipex.com>
Date: 2004-11-17 23:46:56 CET

>
> We are running subversion 1.1.1. There is a binary file (x.fig)
> that was checked into the repositoy. Subversion does not
> seem to have recognized it as being binary. It has no mime-type
> set.
>
> There has already been two revisions of the file. However, when
> I try to check in the lastest revision, I get
>
> Sending x.fig
> Transmitting file data .svn: Commit failed (details follow):
> svn: File '/home/das/src/x.fig' has inconsistent newlines
> svn: Your commit message was left in a temporary file:
> svn: '/home/das/src/svn-commit.tmp'
>
>
> After some googling and looking at archives of this mailing list,
> I figured this might be happening because the file is not recognized
> as binary. So I used propset to set the mime type of the file
> to image/x-xfig. I committed the property change. Checked out the
> file fresh and tried to check it in again with the new revision.
> I still get the same error message. And if I try to revert:
>
> svn: Error restoring text for 'x.fig'
> svn: File '.svn/text-base/x.fig.svn-base' has inconsistent newlines
>
> Here is the property list.
>
> % svn proplist -v x.fig
> Properties on 'x.fig':
> svn:executable : *
> svn:mime-type : image/x-xfig
> svn:keywords : author date id revision
> svn:eol-style : native
>
> So, what do I do at this point? How do I recover? What can I do to this
> file, so that I can check in new versions?

When I have problems with inconsistent eol in text files I delete the
svn:eol-style property using propdel so I can fix the file. It might apply
here as well because the property isn't relevant for a binary file.

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