Massive property update - PLEASE READ

Mark Duling mark.duling at biola.edu
Thu Jan 25 23:56:06 PST 2007


Kevin Ballard <eridius at macports.org> on Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 7:10
PM -0800 wrote:
>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
>]http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s02.html>.

Ok, I see.  Thanks for stating it very clearly.  I'll see if I can add
this to the Wiki.

Mark




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