SVN Line ending Style

svn line-endings eol
Suman picture Suman · May 13, 2009 · Viewed 23.2k times · Source

When i try to commit the file in SVN its showing error as "Commit failed".Details follow....commit svn: Inconsistent line ending style.

Answer

drowe picture drowe · May 13, 2009

Check your svn properties on the directory / files. If you have svn:eol-style defined, but your file contains different styles (Unix vs DOS) the commit will fail, since SVN doesn't know which to convert to.

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

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