Re: Huge diff for one-line change in ASF repository

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 05:43:03PM +0400, Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
> Hi!
>
> One of committers in Apache Tomcat project is experimenting with Git
> <-> Subversion integration.
>
> A result is that in the last few days several commits produced diffs
> for entire file. An example:
>
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1183340
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/tomcat/trunk/java/org/apache/catalina/startup/ContextConfig.java?r1=1183339&r2=1183340
>
> Commit e-mail:
> http://markmail.org/message/f4rdxrjvrenc6tg6
> http://markmail.org/message/iysr4bsfckegq7vp
>
> How can this happen from subversion point of view?
> The file has svn:eol-style=native.

Because whichever git integratio is used ignores this setting and
commits all with lines CRLF anyway?

> AFAIK such files are stored with LF endings at the server. Is this
> line endings convention enforced on the client only?

Yes. The client changes the file EOLs whenever the local value of the
svn:eol-style property changes.

Recall that the server uses binary diffs.
It doesn't know or care what a newline is.
Received on 2011-10-14 15:54:57 CEST