[MLton] Subversion

Florian Weimer fw@deneb.enyo.de
Wed, 27 Jul 2005 12:51:23 +0200


* Anoq of the Sun:

> Adam Goode wrote:
>> There are also problems importing from a repository where branches and
>> tags are used inconsistently. But it seems that if you've never used the
>> same name for both a branch and a tag, you're ok.
>
> SVN defaults to treating all files as binary (i.e. no CR/LF
> conversion and no keyword substitution). You can enable CR/LF
> conversion etc. as properties per file and you can set some
> administrative settings to have e.g. certain file extensions use
> e.g. CR/LR conversion (and/or keyword substitution) by default.

cvs2svn's defaults are different, AFAIK.  It preserves the CVS
settings (which, by default, assume text files).  This leads to
problems when the CVS settings are incorrect.