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

The file has CR's in r1183340 but not in r1183339. Yes, since it has
svn:eol-style set, it is supposed to be stored in LF on the server.

Konstantin Kolinko wrote on Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 17:43:03 +0400:
> 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.
>
>
> AFAIK such files are stored with LF endings at the server. Is this
> line endings convention enforced on the client only?
>
> I am on Windows. Both
> svn cat http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/trunk/java/org/apache/catalina/startup/ContextConfig.java@1183339
> svn cat http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/trunk/java/org/apache/catalina/startup/ContextConfig.java@1183340
>
> produce files with CRLF endings for me, so I do not see such huge
> difference between the files.
>
> But diff command below does produces that huge diff, that is shown by
> viewvc and was in the commit email:
>
> svn diff -c 1183340
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tomcat/trunk/java/org/apache/catalina/startup/ContextConfig.java
>
>
> Besides the diff I do not have other evidence that the file in
> repository has CRs or is otherwise broken.
>
> Best regards,
> Konstantin Kolinko
Received on 2011-10-14 16:11:43 CEST