Re: [boost] svnmerge woes

From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-05 17:05:24

AMDG

dherring_at_[hidden] wrote:
> Official or not, Boost effectively endorses \n as the one true line 
> ending; the release files have names like boost_1_35_0.7z and 
> boost_1_35_0.tar.bz2, no line-ending choice available.

The .zip files have \r\n line endings.

> SVN should not act like FTP with text and binary modes, munging bytes 
> as they flow.  It should maintain bytewise-exact copies of what the 
> user intended, possibly with commit hooks to reject bad line endings.

Have you read
http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/BoostSubversion#MIMETypesandEnd-Of-LineStyles

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe