Unix in a Nutshell, 4th Edition

Special File Properties

Subversion allows you to associate properties with files or directories. A property is just a keyword/value pair associated with the file. Subversion reserves property names starting with svn: for its own use. The special properties in Subversion 1.0 are:

svn:author

The username of the person who committed a particular revision.

svn:date

The date when the transaction for a revision was created.

svn:eol-style

Different operating systems use different conventions to mark the end of lines in text files. Unix and its workalikes use a single ASCII line-feed character (LF) to end lines. MS Windows systems use a Carriage Return + Line Feed combination (CRLF), and older Macintosh systems use a single Carriage Return (CR). This can cause problems when a Windows user stores a new revision of the file: suddenly a Unix user who does a checkout sees a file with extraneous Carriage Return characters at the end of every line. The svn:eol-style attribute solves this problem. It should be set to one of the following values:

CR	Clients should always use CR line terminators, no matter what the native format is.
CRLF	Clients should always use CR-LF line terminators, no matter what the native format is.
LF	Clients should always use LF line terminators, no matter what the native format is.
native	Clients should use the native format when checking out files.

Subversion always stores files in normalized, LF-only format in the repository.

svn:executable

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