Re: Ignore / override svn:eol-style=native while checkout / update

If you do a checkout using svn in Cygwin, the EOL style should be
fine. If you're using Cygwin, you should do the checkout with the
Cygwin client and not the Windows client.

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On Jul 5, 2009, at 6:43 PM, Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2009b_at_ryandesign.com 
 > wrote:
> On Jul 5, 2009, at 09:08, B. Smith-Mannschott wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 05:42, Cyrus Summers wrote:
>>
>>> I recently encountered an issue with svn:eol-style set to native.
>>> While checking out / updating, svn changes all the files with
>>> property
>>> svn:eol-style=native the line endings to CRLF since I'm using
>>> Windows,
>>> the problem is that I also use Cygwin tools to build projects, and
>>> the
>>> shell script interpreter sh only recognize LF as the line ending
>>> as in
>>> *nix systems, the extra CRs are treated as error. So my current
>>> solution is to change all the files the line endings back to its
>>> original using dos2unix...
>>
>> Don't use svn:eol-style=native for *nix shell scripts, use
>> svn:eol-style=LF instead.  That way they'll always have LF line
>> endings, regardless of which platform/client is in use when they are
>> checked out. I would hope that anyone editing *nix shell scripts on
>> windows is competent enough to use an editor other than notepad.
>
> I think his complaint is more that svn:eol-style is being set to
> native for files in projects over which he has no control but would
> still like to use, and therefore is wanting a way to deal with such
> projects on the client side. To which I say: check the working copy
> out in the environment where you want to use it. If you want to use
> it in Cygwin, check it out using the svn command line client in
> Cygwin, which will get the files with LF line endings. If you want to
> use the files in Windows proper, check them out using a Windows
> Subversion client and the line endings will be CRLF. Don't share
> working copies between environments, to avoid issues with EOL style
> and also symlinks.
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