There are a ton of files in the dports tree that have svn:eol-style set to native. In theory this would be a good thing, yes? Unfortunately, it's actually not. In the specific case of patchfiles (by far the most common type of file in the files/ directories), line endings cannot be modified or the patch utility will refuse to apply the chunks. In the more general case of anything in the files/ directories, I would assume that these files all were meant to work with their original line endings, and that, depending on the type of file in there, flipping the line endings could cause issues. The only type of file in which one could make a case for native line endings is *.txt files (of which there are a small handful). As for the Portfiles themselves, I assume Tcl doesn't care about line endings, so I see no problem with native eol-style on those. Does anybody have any objects to my removal of svn:eol-style on all files in the files/* directories (with the possible exception of *.txt files)? -- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org eridius@macports.org http://www.tildesoft.com