On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 15:31, Richard Feit wrote: > From this discussion on the SVN users list -- > http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=users&by=thread&from=184061 > -- I'm gathering that there's not currently an infrastructure-level way in > SVN to set the default svn:eol-style to 'native', and that it's up to > individual users to set this property on added files (and optionally to > create local config.
That is correct. EOL translation is a big cause of data loss/munging in CVS, and by default Subversion does absolutely nothing to your data. > I'm just wondering whether this seems true, and > whether there's been a standard way of dealing with this across Apache > projects. There's no official way, but I've seen a lot of folks using autoprops to get svn:eol-style on *.c and *.java files set to the right thing. See the Subversion book, specifically the section on auto-props: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook/ch07s02.html#svn-ch-7-sect-2.4 -Fitz
