--- Raman Gupta <> wrote:
> 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
>
I don't see it as being useful, but I guess until
somebody decides this is important enough, you could
just export the file using the --native-eol option.
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Received on Thu Feb 1 22:18:46 2007