On Thu, 24 May 2007 18:48:24 +0200 Mladen Turk <mturk(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: You are mixing development with release. Assuming they remember to do that. This is not true if you fix eol-style to LF. One could simply "svn switch" to the release tag. Assuming the project has a sane build system, you could then do a clean build with identical results as "svn export", without having to remember to force it to use LF every time you do a release. - DML