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[Python-Dev] .py and .txt files missing svn:eol-style in trunk

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Sat Mar 4 03:53:03 CET 2006 
[Oleg Broytmann[
>    My experience shows that if the developers use different OSes (our team
> uses Linux and Windows) it helps very much to set svn:eol-style to native
> for all text files - *.py, *.txt, etc, except for files with special
> requirements.

Yes.

> So I use the following shell script
>
> #! /bin/sh
>
> svn add "$@"
> svn propset svn:eol-style native "$@"
> svn propset svn:keywords "Date Rev Id" "$@"
>
>    to add *.py files to the repository. (I don't want to put it in a global
> configuration because I have different requirements for different projects.)
>
>    For other text files the same except keywords:
>
> #! /bin/sh
>
> svn add "$@"
> svn propset svn:eol-style native "$@"
>
>> test_pepe263 probably should be binary (it contains "funny
>> characters").
>
>    It should be text with encoding
>
> $ svn propset svn:mime-type "text/plain; charset=koi8-r" test_pep263

"The reason" it's binary is given in a comment at the top of the file:

""|"
# This file is marked as binary in the CVS, to prevent MacCVS from recoding it.
"""

So someone on a Mac should check whether the Mac flavor of SVN also
screws it up.
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