SVN line ending line

Question

When I try to commit the file to SVN, it shows the error as "Commit failed" .Details follow ... commit svn: Inconsistent line ending style.

Answer 1

Check svn properties in directory / files. If you have svn: eol-style installed, but your file contains different styles (Unix vs DOS), the commit will fail, since SVN does not know which conversion to use.

Link: http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-07/0702.shtml

Answer 2

Once you learn about the line ending style expected by svn, most modern editors will have options to completely convert your source into one style. You can also run regular expressions to detect and modify them (I like Perl for this).

MSDOS EOL: "\ r \ n"

UNIX EOL: "\ n"

Answer 3

Check the EOL in the commit message itself: if you pass the commit message from a file using the --file switch, make sure that the EOL style in the commit message is consistent (all DOS or all UNIX).

Answer 4

for followers, here's how to manually set up a prop one way or another:

  svn propset svn:eol-style LF path/to/filename 

Answer 5

choose the style of the end of the line, create your own tool (for example, kdiff) ... the lower right side (just above the output lines)

Answer 6

I am using TortoiseSVN in a Windows environment. I got the same error while trying to commit project files supposedly written in Linux (AVR32 project). I managed to get around this problem by simply opening each file in Microsoft Visual Studio, after which VS asked me to normalize the end of the line. The choice for this made Turtle stop complaining.