SVN and eol-style: native

[Simon Kitching]

Hi,

I've recently fixed a couple of files without any svn:eol-style setting 
and it has generated big diffs.

I think what's happening is that when svn:eol-style gets set on a file 
that didn't have it, the file gets "normalised" before committing. And 
normalisation happens to mean "convert to unix style". So if the file 
was originally committed without svn:eol-style, but from a unix machine, 
then setting svn:eol-style doesn't cause any diffs. If the file was 
originally committed from a Windows machine (or Mac), however, then 
every line in the file gets updated :-(.

I'll therefore stop adding svn:eol-style props to files. The nuisance of 
the diff is greater than the gain I think; unix users can live with the 
occasional "^M" appearing in their editors, and most Windows editors can 
handle unix line-endings these days (except Notepad!).

But it would be great if people could check that their svn "auto props" 
are set to add svn:eol-style on new files.

Regards,

Simon