On May 8, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> Is there any way to set an EOL style on svn:externals? I know you
> can set it on a checked in file, but what about on another property?
>
> I keep getting windows users checking in svn:externals changes with
> inconsistent line endings, and that makes "svn propget" and "svn
> propedit" choke. I have automated processes that are doing "svn
> propget" followed by "svn propset" if there are changes, so it's
> probably just a matter of time until such an issue (which means svn
> propget fail to return the list of externals) causes an
> svn:externals update to be missed.
>
> I have a case-by-case fix (vi .svn/dir-prop-base, remove the
> carriage returns, carefully adjust the preceding length to reflect
> the lower number of bytes - note that just using dos2unix or ftp in
> ascii mode doesn't work fully because of the length that needs to
> be adjusted), but is there a longer term fix? One where I don't
> have to catch the problem in time?
>
> Alternatively, and this is a distant second in desirability, is
> there a way of using a hook script that'll detect the inconsistent
> line endings and either fix them on the fly or at least reject the
> checkin?
>
> Or should I just write something to automate the vi method I
> sketched above? ISTR hearing that editing things under .svn is a
> Bad Thing, but if I'm doing it manually anyway...
>
> And why does svn propget /care/ about the EOL inconsistency? I
> understand why you wouldn't want to change the EOL convention on
> the fly for a regular file, but for svn:externals maybe it's not
> important to avoid auto-converting.
The only solution I'm aware of would be to write a pre-commit hook to
check the svn:externals property of all committed files, and reject a
commit if the line endings in the property are inconsistent. You
cannot modify versioned properties (or versioned file contents) in a
pre-commit hook.
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Received on 2008-05-09 06:51:17 CEST