On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 05:41:09PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Lars, > > > > what are we going to do? Currently Abdel keeps putting in more and more > > files with mixed line endings. This should be stopped as soon as possible. > > > > I can do the eol-style conversion if we are going to use that. Otherwise, > > please install the precommit-hook. > > Why not make the precommit-hook something like: > > sed 's/\r$//' orig.diff > unix_line_endings.diff > > There's no real reason to beat the developers up over something that can be > fixed automatically.
Modifing committed data is frowned upon on the svn lists because it makes the client believe it has a 1:1 copy of the (afterwards modified) server data while it hasn't. However, my own experiments with such did not show exceptionally bad behaviour, so I personally would not mind such a measure. Andre'