On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 4:26 PM, The Seven <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 13.06.2010 15:17, schrieb Rafaël Carré: >> About eol-style, I think we should just ignore this one and force unix >> line endings in every file. > > I have already seen eol-style cause trouble: > I have my working copy on a linux server, but am using TortoiseSVN on > Windows to do SVN operations conveniently. So sometimes I do an svn up > from Windows via a Samba share on the server. > Now, if eol-style is set to native, this causes some scripts to get CRLF > line endings, which will result in very weird errors when trying to use > them on the linux box the next time. Some of those took quite some time > to get figured out. > > So from what I can tell, they do more harm than they can prevent. Feel > free to point me to a different scenario where they actually help. >
If you use it that way, it causes trouble. If you hit your thumb with a hammer, it causes trouble. Of course the tool cannot read your mind.
