One key requirement - it's got to be easy to use for new developers.
Users need to be able to download subversion, check out Velocity, and build it with a low amount of hassle. Otherwise there are too many barriers.
Does the propset to LF affect this?
Also, does anyone know how the other Jakarta projects using subversion are handling this issue?
WILL
----- Original Message ----- From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 1:42 AM
Subject: Re: anakia generating wrong line endings
Shinobu Kawai Yoshida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
SVN converts files to the platform's line ending, so I don't think it would be a problem it it were all done in UNIX. Is it?
Only if you explicitly tell it to do this (with svn:eol-style) and I consider it a seriously bad idea. If the same source tree checked out with the same command gives you different results depending on which platform the checkout happens (think Unix, think Windows, think Mac), then IMHO all bets are off (what if your Windows checked out tool is used to build a tree that ends up on an Unix host?)
A project should just set a line ending policy and stick to it. Asking the source code management to patch this together will end up in headaches.
( svn propset svn:eol-style LF IMHAUBO [1] )
Regards Henning
[1] IMH and unix biased O :-)
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