[e-lang] Decision needed: Repository newline choice

Mark Miller erights at gmail.com
Tue Jan 2 14:59:05 CST 2007


On 1/2/07, Kevin Reid <kpreid at mac.com> wrote:
> I believe the repository should have svn:eol-style properties set,
> rather than the current condition of (at least some) files having
> CRLF newlines, in order to make the files usable for non-Windows
> tools. Should I tell Subversion:
>
>    - to use and enforce LF newlines
>
>    - to use and enforce platform newlines (they will be stored
> uniformly in the repository)

For text files specifically, telling Subversion to use platform
newlines would be fine. How does Subversion know what is and isn't a
text file?

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Text by me above is hereby placed in the public domain

    Cheers,
    --MarkM


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