Question about svn:eol-style prop

I'm a little confused about when the svn:eol-style prop takes effect.
I added svn:eol-style=native for a number of file types in my svn
config file, but I noticed that a repository that I had already
created continued to be checked out with CRLF (it was imported on a
windows machine and the eol prop had not been set). So I'm wondering
if the svn:eol-style only affects how a file gets stored in the
repository when imported and not how it gets checked out. If this is
the case, I'm wondering how this helps at all.

Thanks,
Carl Youngblood

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