svn and line endings

[Wolfgang Rohdewald]

http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4/Windows/emerge#Subversion_client

says I need to install an svn command line client. So I did,
I installed SlikSVN, based on subversion 1.6.15

so why is there another svn client in kderoot/dev-utils/svn/bin?

That is an old CollabNet client from Aug 2009,
and this one is actually used by emerge even when SlikSVN
is installed. I deinstalled SlikSVN again and emerge was
still able to fetch svn sources.

Now to my real problem: The wiki says I need a svn which was
compiled on windows such that it converts Linux file endings
LF to Windows file endings CRLF when checking out.

None of the subversion clients I tried does this conversion,
I tried TortoiseSVN, current SlikSVN and your dev-utils/svn.

none of the files I checked has the svn:eol-style set, so
subversion never converts it to CRLF. This would only be
done if svn:eol-style native is set.

from
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn-book.html#svn.advanced.props.special.eol-style

by default, Subversion doesn't pay any attention to the type of
end-of-line (EOL) markers
...
The solution to this problem is the svn:eol-style property.
When this property is set to a valid value, Subversion uses
it to determine what special processing to perform
..

the diffs in emerge/portage do actually have CRLF.

unless all KDE source files have svn:eol-style native I suspect
the correct solution would be to use something like unix2dos


-- 
Wolfgang
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