On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 07:13, Sven Köhler <sven.koeh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > consider the following steps: > - checkout a file from SVN that has svn:eol-style=CRLF > - verify that the file has CRLF line endings > - convert the file to unix line endings using dos2unix, recode, etc. > - verify that the file has LF line endings > > Now you observe the following: > 1) svn diff shows nothing > 2) svn status shows nothing > 3) even after svn update, the LF line endings remain > > The only command I have found to actually restore the CRLF line endings > is svn revert. I'm using subversion 1.6.17. > > Isn't the behaviour of subversion kind of odd? I mean, I wouldn't have > set eol-style to something other than native if the line endings > wouldn't matter to me. It is expected, that svn diff shows nothing. But > it's odd that svn status doesn't even inform me that the local file has > been altered - especially if the line endings of that file matter, I > kind of depend on subversion to tell me about it. It would be another > nice feature if subversion would not only ignore the line endings, but > also restore the proper line endings (according to svn:eol-style) on > demand (for example during an update).
When you changed EOL characters, did the file timestamps change?
