On 10/9/2006 12:20 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 16:13 +0200, Méresse Christophe wrote:
>
>>> CVS would have been doing native eol conversion by default
>>> for everything not marked binary. Normally that's what
>>> you want at least in a cross platform environment (or one
>>> that might ever be). If that was working for you under CVS,
>>> why don't you want it under subversion?
>>>
>> Well, the fact is that with CVS, they were working on unix only
>> but now that they have discovered TortoiseSVN, they often do
>> their subversion operations on windows (throught samba) and
>> work on unix. I know that may seem a bit strange...
>> but anyway, that's like that. And that's why they don't want
>> the versioning system to deal with the content of their files.
>
> That's just bizarre. They want to check out files that won't
> work under the OS where they do it??
What makes you think Unix text files wouldn't work under Windows? Most
programmers' editors in Windows are quite happy with either style of
line ending.
>
>> (They are not the first developers I encountered who have this
>> point of view (that this should not be the versioning system job),
>> and I must admit that they may be right, but that's a long debate... :) )
>
> Given that text doesn't work unless converted for the native style
> and developers tend to work with text, I don't really get that
> concept. Wouldn't it be better to learn to use the native tools
> (maybe eclipse/subeclipse) in the first place instead of building
> something that will break when you do? If they want to work
> under windows, I also expect them to want to edit there too.
> Hasn't that come up?
>
>> My advice is that it would be great if subversion could overload
>> the svn:eol-style property in the client configuration (or/and in
>> the command lines options), but that's an other story.
>
> It would be great if text was portable. It isn't.
Sure it is, if you use the right tools. There are tools that don't
handle Unix style text, but I've found them easy to avoid.
Duncan Murdoch
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