- This means if a Windows user downloads the source code and shares it with someone on a UNIX-based operating system, the person on the UNIX-based operating system will be able to compile and build the project even though it was downloaded using an SVN client on Windows.
- People who download using SVN clients on UNIX-based operating systems are not affected by this, this is just a fix so that files requiring UNIX-style line endings ALWAYS have those line endings no matter what.