Re: What do you Hate about Subversion?

On Friday 02 February 2007 12:45, L. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> You can implement it but I don't think it will accepted. Subversion
> core philosophy is that you don't change files during check-in.
> Since different combinations of mixed line endings can generate the
> same file when converted there will be some cases where a check-in
> will result in the working copy being out of date. That means the
> subversion client will have to modify the working copy file as
> well.

I don't think anybody answered my question yet, regarding your good
point...

I'm on GNU/Linux, FSFS repository format, svn 1.4.2.

I import "main.c" using auto-props to set svn:eol-style=native. The
file is originally DOS text style. Of course svn imports it with no
question. Next time I co, the file is in my native (UNIX) style.
Here it comes...
Has not Subversion modified the file?

If not, then how to I get the original file back out of my repository?

And in any case, the limitation of assuming mixed EOL is not the same
type of text nulifies the usability of the svn:eol-style feature
because there is no tool for me to

1. import the whole tree but not set svn:eol-style on these
mixed-style yet because they are not certain

2. search for these mixed-style, and modify them to have consistent
eol style

3. commit the mod with svn:eol-style set as desired

Having a tool like this would make me very happy, and I could argue no
further. I cannot afford to do it manually every stinking time the
vendor releases their knew "highly portable" FreeRTOS, and I cannot
convince everybody contributing to that project to use a certain
editor.

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Received on Fri Feb 2 21:07:18 2007