Subversion eol-corrupting jar files on update

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 07:47:12AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
>Karr, David wrote:
>>> I'm having trouble with the svn in Cygwin corrupting jar
>>> files on update or checkout.  It's doing an eol translation.
>>> I've specified ".jar" in my svn properties, to indicate that
>>> it should use the "eol-type" of "native".  My "mount" table
>>> shows everything in "textmode".  Do I have to change to
>>> binary in order for this to work?  I would have thought the
>>> eol-type setting in the subversion config should deal with this.
>> If the Cygwin port of subversion is really just using the mount mode to
>> determine this, then that seems like a bug to me.  Someone else pointed
>> out to me that subversion is able to determine that the "mime-type" of
>> ".jar" is "application/octet-stream", and that should imply that it
>> should do no file conversion.
>
>Ugh, textmode. Been so long since I've used it, I'd forgotten about it.
>
>/me mentally prepares himself for adding a slew of binary flags.

Can't you just link everything with /usr/lib/binmode.o ?

cgf

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