Re: Changing the "native" newline mode

Greetings, Glenn Maynard!

>> Although I'm not sure why he wouldn't check out with a windows client. I'm not sure how connecting to a Linux machine to checkout to a folder mounted on a windows machine is easier than using the
>> windows CLI.

> It's easier because it's a fully configured CLI that I already have
> running all the time, which does everything the way I want. I don't
> want to have to do half of my CLI work from a clumsy Cygwin window,
> especially since I have working copies in both Linux and Windows that
> I deal with simultaneously.

Cygwin checkout will give you LF-only line endings, just like what you are
doing now.

>> Instead, we set svn:eol-style to LF, and configured our Windows editors to
>> know how to deal with such files.

> Visual Studio just doesn't understand it. It'll load them and do
> basic editing fine, but copy/paste leads to mixed newlines.

Use AnkhSVN for example. Or native Windows build of Subversion.

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WBR,
 Andrey Repin (anrdaemon_at_freemail.ru) 13.02.2010, <6:15>
Sorry for my terrible english...