[Lazarus] EOL character used in .lfm files keep changing

[Marc Weustink]

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Florian Klaempfl wrote:
>> BTW: Some .lrs files in lazarus/ide miss this property. Furthermore,
>> some have text/plain as mime type, others text/pascal.
> 
> Thanks Florian. You just proved my point, that mistakes can and do
> happen in a SubVersion repository.
> 
> As I mentioned in my previous reply to Vincent. Setting those properties
> happen on client-side, and if somebody checks in those files without the
> proper properties you get inconsistencies with other files.
> 
> Bottom line is, the files should NOT be modified by the repository
> tools.  

They should. Especially if you have your sources shared with different 
environments. Svn will change them to on consistent value.


> I often use a "share folder" to work in a VM session testing
> things under Windows, while my host OS is Linux. This means the files
> will have inconsistent EOL characters even though the files were
> checkout out (and silently modified) by svn, because I did not check
> them out again while I worked in my Windows VM.

I share my sources between windows, linux and mac machines and I've only 
problems with files not having that flag.
Note that I only checkin / update on linux.

Marc