On Wed 10-May-06 4:16am -0600, Bram Moolenaar wrote:

> Bill McCarthy wrote:
>
>> When I checkout vim7 with svn under WinXP Pro, my text files
>> are all coming out as UNIX files (using LF instead of
>> CR/LF).
>> 
>> The svn program is designed to handle proper EOL for an
>> operating system when a property called svn:eol-stype is set
>> to "native".
>> 
>> Am I supposed to do anything special to cause svn to give my
>> text files to be stored as standard CR/LF files?
>
> Why do you want CR-LF files?  A single LF should work just fine.

The svn docs explain this quite well.  Some programs fail to
properly deal with LF only.  A good example is Microsoft
notepad.exe.

> Automatic LF to CR-LF translation always causes trouble somewhere.

I have never had a problem with CVS doing this.  I believe
the "trick" is to only mark 'native' those files which are
indeed text files.

-- 
Best regards,
Bill

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