Could you set 'svn:eol-style' to 'LF' for 'packaging/win32/*.sh'?

Tao Wang dancefire at gmail.com
Thu Jun 3 05:51:38 EDT 2010


On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be>wrote:

> On Wednesday 2 June 2010, Christian Stimming wrote:
> > (But only for files which are already in SVN. New files will always have
> no
> > svn:eol-style set. It is not possible to have those set for new files by
> >  the server automatically. Believe me, it is not possible - I have spent
> >  considerable time researching this. The only simple workaround is that
> all
> >  developers modify their $HOME/.subversion/config files and activate the
> >  following lines:
> >
> > enable-auto-props = yes
> > *.c = svn:eol-style=LF
> > *.h = svn:eol-style=LF
> > *.sh = svn:eol-style=LF
> >
> > Once this is set on a user's computer, every new file that is added to
> svn
> > from that computer will have the noted eol-style property added
> > automatically.)
> >
> I suppose this configuration only caters for files ending in .c, .h or .sh
> ?
> So if I add such config file and then add a new patch file (ending in
> .patch
> or .diff) those files would still have undetermined line endings...
>
> We'll just have to be vigilant then when adding new files, right ?
>

How about also set ".patch and *.diff to 'LF'? I checked those .patch and
.diff, most of them are patches for .c, .cpp, Makefile and autotools files.
I think it should be ok to set them to 'LF'.

-- 
Regards

Tao Wang


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