--- Les Mikesell wrote:
> Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
> >
> > svn is for revision management. It's nice that it
> can handle the common
> > cases of text format translation, but that's not
> its main goal, and if
> > the simple thing it does doesn't work for you,
> turn it off.
>
> It isn't "nice" that it can handle text - it is an
> absolute requirement
> for a cross-platform tool that tracks differences to
> understand that
> text is different across platforms. Personally I
> think CVS had it right
> in making text handling the default and binary the
> exception but I
> understand the reasoning for the change.
>
> What would be "nice" would be for it to be more
> forgiving about input
> styles and to have options to specify that you'd
> prefer your output in a
> different style than native for the client where you
> happen to execute
> the command.
>
But you can set it have a different output style other
then native. Just set the EOL style to either LF or
CRLF and when you checkout the file will have that EOL
style regardless of what platform you are on.
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Received on Thu Feb 1 19:39:03 2007