RE: setting the EOL property throughout a repo?

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Giulio Troccoli wrote:

> > From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpjday_at_crashcourse.ca]

> > just want to verify that, if i want to set the UNIX-style EOL
> > property on all of the text files in a source code repo (that is,
> > all the .c,.cpp, .h, etc, etc files), the easiest way is just to
> > run the appropriate "find" command and execute "svn propset" on
> > each matching file? that *seems* like the obvious way, i just
> > didn't know if there was something more clever or elegant.
> > thanks.
>
> That's correct. Them you should also set the auto-prop for new files
> and change the pre-commit hook to reject a commit when the
> svn:eol-style property is not what you want. All this will ensure
> that you will not have the same problem in the future.

  ok, this is undoubtedly a dumb question but here goes. at the
moment, i have no access to customize the server end so i can't mess
with any of the hooks (yet). with that limitation in mind (and i know
we've discussed this before), what is the value in my setting that
property on the text files and checking them in?

  more specifically, what *exactly* happens with files on which i've
set that property? as in, how will it affect others who mess up their
EOL characters, then try to commit such a file, if i haven't been able
to make any mods to the hook scripts? is there any value at all? i'm
more than happy to have those commits simply fail with at least a
moderately informative error message since i've been whining
constantly to people to stop screwing up their EOLs, so if it burns
them, that might actually teach them a lesson. :-)

  so, once again, what is the effect on simply setting that property
if nothing else is done? what happens at the time of commit behind
the scenes? thanks.

rday

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