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Re: line-endings of conflict-markers.

From: Paul Koning <pkoning_at_equallogic.com>
Date: 2005-11-28 22:58:56 CET

>>>>> "Kees" == Kees <bluemoon@xs4all.nl> writes:

>> That seems very strange. If you set the line ending to native,
>> you can check out on either side without trouble.

 Kees> we've had experience with cvs which will always convert
 Kees> line-endings. We do not want subversion to mess with the
 Kees> line-endings.

By default it will not -- it only does if you set svn:eol-style.

>> Even if you want to check out on one system and just copy the
>> directory, Unix line endings are the better answer -- with the
>> exception of Windows-specific files like MSVC++ project files.

>> I agree: Unix line endings would be a better choice, and it's what
>> we've standardized on in our company. But perhaps that's only
>> because a good Windows editor can deal with files with Unix line
>> endings, while Unix/Linux commandline utilities in my experience
>> cannot.

 Kees> We have standardized on windows line-endings because we found
 Kees> out that windows editors are very picky. So we took the easy
 Kees> way out for windows users and made it a bit more difficult for
 Kees> the linux users (Which fits nicely). But now we have an issue
 Kees> with the line-endings and I have not a good feeling that it
 Kees> will be solved because a bug report was created in 2003.

My experience with line endings is generally fine on Windows. Visual
Studio handles Unix endings just fine. You're right, Notepad gets
confused. XEmacs on Windows also works fine.

           paul

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