On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 04:56:03AM -0500, John Szakmeister wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Stefan Sperling <[email protected]> wrote: > > When trying to 'svn import' files that have a mixed eol style, > > and at the same time using autoprops to set an svn:eol-style property > > with value 'native' on this file, svn import aborts with an "Inconsistent > > line ending style" error. Is there any specific reason for this? > > Can't we just normalize the file to LF (i.e. the repository normal form)? > > I think it was probably part of Subversion's "do no harm" decision > policy. If the type of the file was actually binary, and the > autoprops changed it, then the file would be corrupted from the > beginning.
If that's the reasoning then why is it normalising the data for svn:eol-style with values other than 'native'? > > It's a nuisance when migrating data from other version control systems > > into Subversion, especially if a lot of files are affected and the old > > system doesn't support handling files with mixed newlines in a smart way. > > To apply autoprops in this case another checkout/svn_apply_autoprops/commit > > cycle is needed, or manual translation of the affected files is required > > before running the import, both of which can take a long time with large > > data sets. > > Yep, I agree. > > [snip] Thanks. I'll start working on a patch. > > -John
