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Re: What do you Hate about Subversion?

From: Raman Gupta <raman_at_rocketraman.com>
Date: 2007-02-01 22:31:49 CET

Frodak wrote:
> --- Raman Gupta <> wrote:
>> 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.

Unfortunately it doesn't apply to working copies, only exports. I
won't debate the usefulness of it -- I gave one use case and I'm sure
there are others, but yes I realize its a small piece of
functionality. It certainly wouldn't qualify for me in the category
"What do you Hate about Subversion" in any meaningful way.

Cheers,
Raman

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