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Re: How to remove all the svn:eol-style native from the repository ?

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_google.com>
Date: 2006-10-09 06:33:52 CEST

Méresse Christophe <christophe.meresse@nagra.com> writes:
> We have migrated 2 weeks ago some projects from CVS to SVN with the
> cvs2svn script. (about 13000 revisions) and I've noticed that the
> script has applied a svn:eol-style native to all our non binary
> files. I don't want this !
>
> Is there a way to remove all these meta-data "svn:eol-style" from the
> repository ? Obviously it does not seem to be possible with subversion
> command lines, but I wonder if there is a safe way to modify directly
> the repository (I can find this "native" option in every revision of
> our fsfs repository).
>
> I've found on the mailing list people who purpose to checkout all the
> repository from the root and then remove the property recursively but
> that's not what I want because it will not change the history
> (Moreover my repository is probably too big and have too many tags and
> branches to do that)

Why don't you just redo the conversion, this time telling cvs2svn not
to apply svn:eol style properties? I think it has some option(s) for
controlling that. It only did it by default because you had the
corresponding CVS 'k' flags on those files, in fact.

-Karl

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