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Re: setting the EOL property throughout a repo?

From: Nick Stolwijk <nick.stolwijk_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:20:44 +0100

To apply the autoprops you have configured to all existing files in
your workingcopy, use the svn_apply_autoprops script.

http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/contrib/client-side/svn_apply_autoprops.py

Hth,

Nick Stolwijk
~Java Developer~

Iprofs BV.
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2012 WS Haarlem
www.iprofs.nl

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Ryan Schmidt
<subversion-2008c_at_ryandesign.com> wrote:
> On Nov 25, 2008, at 07:18, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Giulio Troccoli wrote:
>>
>>> I've done a little test. I used dos2unix to change the EOL of a text
>>> file, set the svn:eol-style property to LF and commit. You can't
>>> have mixed EOL style when you set the property I seem to remember.
>>> All this on a Unix system.
>>>
>>> Then I change the EOL style with unix2dos but svn status did not
>>> report any changes.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure what this proves though. Maybe that once svn:eol-style
>>> is set Subversion doesn't care anymore about the actual EOL, because
>>> when you check the file out (or maybe even just an update) the EOL
>>> will be what the property says.
>>
>> i just did a test as well, and it does what i was hoping for.
>>
>> 1) take a non-propertied text file, "unix2dos" it to get <CR><LF> EOL
>> characters in it, use "svn diff" to see that, yes, they're there, and
>> commit that.
>>
>> 2) use "svn cat" on the repo itself to verify that, yes, it got
>> committed with the <CR><LF> EOLs. so far, so good.
>>
>> 3) check my working copy and, not surprisingly, the <CR><LF> EOLs are
>> still in the file in my working copy.
>>
>> 4) "svn propset svn:eol-style LF" that file in my working copy, verify
>> the property difference with "svn diff" and commit. commit succeeds.
>>
>> 5) "svn cat" the file in the repo to see that, sure enough, the EOLs
>> have been reduced to simple <LF>s. which is what i was after.
>>
>> 6) note, with some surprise, that the file in my working copy has
>> *also* been reduced to simple <LF> EOLs. curious. i would have
>> thought that i would have had to update first but i'm good with that.
>> so it looks like i can get the effect i want without having to resort
>> to hook scripts.
>>
>> does all of that make sense?
>
> For files on which you set the svn:eol-style property (to any value),
> Subversion will convert their line endings to LF for storage in the
> repository. When bringing the file into a working copy, it will translate
> the line endings from LF to whatever the svn:eol-style property says to do,
> and on commit, it will convert back to LF.
>
> Users who change the line endings of a file with the svn:eol-style property
> wholly to another line ending style will have no problem; Subversion will
> convert it back to LF and accept the commit.
>
> Users who change the line endings of a file with the svn:eol-style property
> partially to another line ending style (e.g. some lines ending with LF, some
> ending with CRLF; some fantastic Windows editors like to do this) will
> encounter an error message from Subversion telling them the file has
> inconsistent line endings; the user must resolve this problem before
> committing.
>
> Users can change the line ending style of files that do not have the
> svn:eol-style property, either wholly or partially, and Subversion will
> accept the bytes they send with no complaint. This is why you should set up
> a pre-commit hook: to prevent people from committing new files that do not
> have the property set.
>
>
>
>
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