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Subject: RE: Subversion problems with "svn switch", "svn co", "svn switch", because of 'wrong' permissions in .svn/ directories
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:08:40 +0100
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Spiro Trikaliotis wrote on 26 April 2008 10:42:

> Anyway, this reminds me of another problem: Personally, I install Cygwin
> with DOS line endings (CR/LF). That's the reason why I have built
> CVS.EXE myself some moons ago ;), as the pre-built version did not like
> this setup. (IIRC, the outputs were garbled in many places. At the time
> when I tested it, it was a known issue on the info-cvs mailing list.) At
> least CVS checks out the text files in the "native" format of the
> platform - as I am using Cygwin with CR/LF, this is the CR/LF format.
> 
> Unfortunately, with SVN from Cygwin, this is not true anymore. For the
> Cygwin version of SVN, the "native" format for text files uses Unix line
> endings (LF) only.
> 
> As there a way to get it fixed? Or is it again something for upstream?

  A config item to override the default setting for "native" eol-style might
well be a useful feature enhancement patch for upstream; it would be useful on
all platforms, not just Cygwin.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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