Fwd: Re: cleaning up the EOL chaos in an existing repo

(Sorry, I should have replied to the list, not just to David.)

Quoting David Weintraub <qazwart_at_gmail.com>:

> That's probably all you can do once the repository is already in
> Subversion. BTW, if you do that, put the svn:eol-style property on
> when you do a clean up, so you don't have to commit everything twice.

ah, quite right ... adding all those properties later would provoke
another massive commit. good point.

> Another thought: Do an 'svnadmin dump', filter it, then do a "svnadmin
> load". The dump format is pretty simple, and shouldn't be hard to
> write a Python or Perl script to do the cleanup (and add the
> svn:eol-style property while it's at it.)

hmmmm ... i'll give that some thought, it sounds suitably challenging.

> Yet, another thought: Don't do anything. Instead, just make a
> pre-commit hook that requires the svn:eol-style property be set on
> particular files (with a particular value). As people make changes,
> they'll have to add the svn:eol-style property to do the cleanup. When
> the file gets committed, it will be checked in with the correct line
> ending.

i'd thought of that, but i want to be able to edit arbitrary files
in my working copy without being faced with countless ^M's all the
time, so i'd rather just deal with this once and for all.

rday

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Received on 2008-09-12 18:44:53 CEST