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Re: What do you Hate about Subversion?

From: Raman Gupta <rocketraman_at_fastmail.fm>
Date: 2007-02-01 21:48:19 CET

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Frodak wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
>
> Wouldn't that adversely affect other people/platforms who wanted the
> same file with a different conversion? This would be for someone who
> wants 'native' format for something, just not for the platform where he
> runs the client. There is no reason to think that should exclude others
> from wanting a different 'native' form in other places.

Exactly, I've often wanted the ability to set my "native" EOL to
something other than the one dictated by my platform. For example, it
would be nice to be able to do this on windows (or the equivalent on
unix):

set SVN_NATIVE=LF
svn checkout ...

Why? Well, say I use a Subversion on windows with a cygwin-based
toolset (yes I know there is a cygwin version of Subversion, which in
fact I do currently use, but there may be many other reasons why I
don't want to or can't use it). In that case, it would be nice if one
could control the behavior of "native".

Cheers,
Raman

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