Although I am mindful of the fact that at least one person is growing tired of this thread,
The problem that you describe in your answer has nothing to do with Subversion. That is, the problems of transferring a text file from Mac to PC on a USB stick has always existed, independently of Subversion. Still, is it necessary to modify the SVN Handbook to make sure people don't make mistakes? Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: Les Mikesell Sent: 01/25/12 04:21 PM To: Richard Cavell Subject: Re: Compatible with Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Richard Cavell <richardcav...@mail.com> wrote: > So, in the interests of keeping the Subversion handbook current and > reliable, what is the present advice regarding svn:eol-style? If you are doing cross-platform work, you generally need to use native for text files or you will have to script your own conversions. But, never mix this with any other way of getting files between platforms, like moving a working copy on a usb drive between windows and linux, dual-booting with access to a common drive, or sharing a network-mounted copy. And the cygwin port of svn may think that unix style text is native even though it is on windows (I think that's an option somewhere deep inside of cygwin but I've forgotten - the point of cygwin is to make windows look like unix, so it might even make sense). -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com
