Re: [boost] [git] Line endings in bootstrap.bat on Windows

Subject: Re: [boost] [git] Line endings in bootstrap.bat on Windows
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-11-25 14:28:34

AMDG

On 11/25/2013 10:24 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:
> 
> Ha! tools/build/v2/engine/build.bat just has newlines. Yet it has cr/lf
> line endings in svn.
> 
> So that's why on Windows autocrlf = true is required. It also shows that
> conversion's treatment of line endings is inconsistent - apparently
> bootstrap.bat does not have CR stripped but tools/build does have them
> stripped.
> 

The difference appears to because:

>svn propget svn:eol-style trunk\bootstrap.bat
CRLF

>svn propget svn:eol-style trunk\tools\build\v2\engine\build.bat
native

It sounds like the conversion doesn't handle
svn:eol-style=CRLF correctly.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe