On Jan 25, 2007, at 10:04 PM, Mark Duling wrote:
Kevin Ballard <eridius@macports.org> on Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 6:54 PM -0800 wrote:
In the future, please try and use the right properties. svn:eol-style native belongs on files which are line-ending-agnostic, like text files, shell scripts, tcl scripts, and other source files. Patchfiles must *NOT* have svn:eol-style set, as line endings are important in them. Additionally, be careful about svn:executable - there were some patch files with that set. Only set it if your file really needs to be executable. There are still a bunch of svn:executable shell scripts, but not all of them need it (most of them, for example, are passed as an argument to bash). I didn't bother removing it from scripts, but I did remove it from the patchfiles.
Please explain how I can follow your recommendations, or documents I can read to understand this issue. I am totally unfamiliar with this issue and so I won't be able to follow these guidelines.
If you create a new Portfile, you should set svn:eol-style to native on it (`svn propset svn:eol-style native Portfile`). If you add any patches to the repository, don't set any properties on them. If you add files which aren't patches or Portfiles.. is the file a binary file? if yes, set svn:mime-type to application/octet-stream if no, do the line endings matter? if they don't, set svn:eol- style to native If you don't want to worry about properties, it's not a big deal if you set none of them, but if possible I'd like the repository to be consistent about this. If you want extra reading material about properties, try <http:// svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s02.html>. HTH, Kevin Ballard -- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org kevin@sb.org http://www.tildesoft.com -- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org eridius@macports.org http://www.tildesoft.com