On 14/06/2010 19:14, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 07:02:59PM +0100, Rob Purchase wrote:
>
>> If I had the choice, I would also do my SVN updates/checkins using a
>> Windows tool such as TortoiseSVN, but I am led to believe this will
>> break things because the "native" eol-style causes SVN to mungw the
>> line-endings to suit Windows. Not having this property set at all would
>> suit me better, as an example.
>>
> Yes, I think we can agree that no setting is better than "native". I do
> maintain that the "correct" setting is still significantly better though
> (i.e. LF on most files, CRLF on windows-specific files)
>
I woulk think the explicit setting would work in the above case too (but
I haven't tested this). Another question to consider is whether the
Cygwin compilers have any special requirements. Anyone?

Rob.
Received on 2010-06-14