[Gdal-dev] RFC 3: GDAL Commiter Guildlines

[Marek Brudka]

Frank,
> Marek Brudka wrote:
>> Hi,
>>    Recommended practice:
>>  > "All source code in SVN should be in Unix text format as opposed 
>> to DOS text mode."
>> is rather pointless, as subversion clients convert all text files on 
>> the fly. It is better thus to employ "svn:eol-style=native" property 
>> for all existing text files and configure svn clients to do the same 
>> when creating new ones. Please, see /etc/subversion/config.
>
> Marek,
>
> There are ways of committing code into SVN in DOS format. 
The way the files are stored in SVN repository is the implementation 
detail of SVN, and does not depend on committer will. Please, read the 
chapter in svn guide about properties (metadata) and in particular about 
"svn:eol-style=native" to understand the way subversion handles text 
files. The practices from CSV are useless here, because the architecture 
of CSV is different than SVN.

Marek