Re: [boost] Line endings fixes

Subject: Re: [boost] Line endings fixes
From: Niall Douglas (ndouglas_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-08-12 11:45:56

> > If it is the original SVN which is in error, it could be that SVN fixes it 
> > up on
> checkout and hence we've never noticed it before. That implies the need for 
> a
> tool which can grok the SVN repo directly for mismatched EOLs.
>
> Niall, the issue is that SVN treats most SVG files as binary currently. As 
> far as I'm
> aware, it does not fix anything up on checkout.

I looked into this problem over the weekend.

You're somewhat right: the cause is that the (per-file) svn:eol-style property 
in the Boost SVN repo is not necessarily consistent with the list specified at 
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/BoostSubversion, and because the 
.gitattributes ryppl is using is an exact duplicate of 
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/BoostSubversion, this introduces EOL 
inconsistencies. I didn't observe your statement that SVG is mostly treated as 
binary, it seems to be more that most SVG in some particular library is either 
mostly one way or another but not consistently so.

This isn't just a SVG problem: bootstrap.bat in the root directory has the 
wrong svn:eol-style for example!

Options:

1. If we don't care that checkouts from git of old revisions may have 
incorrect EOLs, we can commit a fix to all affected files in SVN HEAD to 
ensure their svn:eol-style exactly matches what 
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/BoostSubversion says it should be.

2. If we do care that checkouts from git any revision are always correct, 
we'll need to do some monkeypatching during the svn to git conversion process 
(i.e. check for incorrectness, and fix).

Niall

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