Re: converting from SVN to CVS

Hello,

Erik Huelsmann wrote:
>> The problem with Cygwin is that there is not one "correct" EOL style,
>> but two: Cygwin supported LF and CR/LF - and it even supports mixed
>> configurations, in which some paths are LF, and some are CR/LF. libapr
>> handles this case statically - it always assumes LF: This is wrong for
>> many installations.
>>
>> The easiest correct way: Open the file in text mode and believe the
>> runtime of Cygwin that it determines the correct style. Unfortunately,
>> SVN does not believe the runtime, but wants to handle it itself - which
>> is plain wrong, and a big bug.
>>
>> CVS does this correctly.
>
> I'm sorry, but this is NOT handled by the APR libraries (but by the
> Subversion ones);

Subversion asks libapr for the native line ending on the system.
libapr's answer is wrong on many systems, including mine, because I have
set up cygwin to use Windows line endings.

I do not know what Subversion does around this call to libapr. Anyway,
patching libapr to return CR/LF somehow "fixes" this problem in case you
do not have a mixed installation of Cygwin (some mounts LF, some paths
CR/LF).

Thus, from an end-users point of view, libapr's answer is wrong, *or*
Subversions handling of it is wrong. Either way, the resulting
Subversion binary is wrong, too.

> even more, Cygwin presents itself as Unix at build
> time, which means this is NOT a bug in Subversion.

It presents itself as Unix? How do you determine if something presents
itself as Unix or not?

> Moreover, CVS
> doesn't handle this correctly: it doesn't handle it at all;

It *does* handle it correctly by opening the file in text mode. That's
the best solution to it: Trust the OS/run time that it knows its system
best.

Subversion does not trust the OS, but believes to know better - which
sometimes results in catastrophic results.

Regards,
Spiro.

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Spiro R. Trikaliotis                              http://opencbm.sf.net/
http://www.trikaliotis.net/                     http://www.viceteam.org/
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