[Dev] lingering SVN binary vs. text problems

[John Anderson]

I've considered that, but it tends to be risky since not all the windows 
tools can handle mixed end of lines and it causes problems for people 
who don't know that they have to do this to avoid the mine field. 
Anyway, how would you feel if you had to live with cf/lf while 
developing on linux -- you'd hate it, just like those windows-centric 
developers would hate having to live with lf instead of their familiar 
cr/lf. Finally, svn is smart enough to automaticlly figure out binary 
vs. text files when you add them, so this mixup was a temporary artifact 
of how the repository was moved from cvs -- e.g. we lost the binary vs. 
text info in cvs.

john

Brendan O'Connor wrote:

> One option is to do away with all text conversions -- the windows user 
> turns off text conversion on their client, or tag all files as 
> binary.  I mean, all the good programmer's text editors on windows 
> understand unix line endings, so perhaps automatic cr/lf conversions 
> just aren't worth it anymore...
>
> just a thought, Brendan.
>
>
> On 6/3/05, *John Anderson* <john at osafoundation.org 
> <mailto:john at osafoundation.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Bear:
>
>     I'm still having trouble doing a svn diff on the command line in
>     cygwin.
>     Looks like there are still some lingering problems:
>
>     locale/*.po
>     wxPython/distrib/msw/MSVCIRT.DLL
>     wxPython/distrib/msw/MSVCP60.DLL
>     wxPython/distrib/msw/MSVCRT.DLL
>     wxPython/samples/embedded/embedded.o
>     wxPython/samples/embedded/embedded
>
>     are getting mucked by the end of line conversion since they're
>     incorrectly listed as text files. One way you can make sure you've
>     got
>     all the files fixed is to do a fresh checkout on windows, making sure
>     you're using native eols, do a svn diff in cygwin installed with cr/lf
>     eols and make sure the diff is empty. Anyone who's done a svn
>     checkout
>     on windows should probably verify that an svn diff doesn't list files
>     that you didn't change otherwise we may accidentally checkin a mucked
>     binary file.
>
>     John
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