svn commit: rev 46176 - forrest/trunk/src/documentation/content/xdocs

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Author: brondsem
Date: Thu Sep 16 06:26:50 2004
New Revision: 46176

Modified:
   forrest/trunk/src/documentation/content/xdocs/contrib.xml
Log:
explain line ending issues in SVN

Modified: forrest/trunk/src/documentation/content/xdocs/contrib.xml
==============================================================================
--- forrest/trunk/src/documentation/content/xdocs/contrib.xml	(original)
+++ forrest/trunk/src/documentation/content/xdocs/contrib.xml	Thu Sep 16 06:26:50 2004
@@ -98,6 +98,15 @@
         checked out via the http: protocol, then the following command will
         convert it.</p>
       <source>svn sw https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/forrest/trunk</source>
+      <p>Line ending issues can be a problem when committing, since developers use
+        both Linux and Windows.  SVN can understand that files are text (as opposed to binary like images), but
+        this must be specified for every new file added.  The commandline SVN client
+        can be <link href="http://issues.cocoondev.org/browse/FOR-124">configured to automatically do this</link>
+        for certain file extensions.  To do it manually, make sure all line endings
+        are in your current OS's native format (the dos2unix and unix2dos utilities
+        may be useful) and then do a <code>svn propset svn:eol-style native myfilename.txt</code>
+        and <code>svn commit -m "fix line endings" myfilename.txt</code>
+      </p>
     </section>
 
     <section id="procedure">