Re: Mixed Unix-Windows development

Greetings, Andrey Repin!

>> As I've read in the SVNbook (red-bean)
>> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.props.file-portability.html#svn.advanced.props.special.eol-style
>> - I can tune Subversion so, that when our code is committed under Windows -
>> CR-LF will be translated to LF, so Unix developers will be happy.

>> I can select the commit mode: to keep CR-LF in the code forever, to keep LF
>> forever or to use "native" line endings.

> No, seriously, you got it absolutely wrong.
> It does not commit what, it check out what.
> If you set svn:eol-style to native your checkouts will have line-endings
> native to the system you've checked it out, but what is stored in SVN is a
> whole different question, not related to your issue.

>> It was very pity for me, that all this tuning works only for commit operation,
>> not for checkout or update.

> You must tell your developers to add files with proper properties (in case -
> svn:eol-style).
> Then it will work as you want.

To further clarify this moment, the svn:mime-type must be text/<whatever>
for svn:eol-style to affect anything.
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn-book.html#svn.advanced.props.special.mime-type
Look for the "Warning" block.

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WBR,
 Andrey Repin (anrdaemon_at_freemail.ru) 17.05.2009, <13:48>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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