Please, make sure your SVN client uses something that matches the following config. Specially the autoprops part, that way new files will be added with the right settings. Default config for command line svn is in ~/.subversion/config. If you use SVN for multiple projects simultaneously, remember you can use different configs, at least in cmd line (via --config-dir and for example ~/.subversion/supertuxkart/ with a new config file inside). [miscellany] global-ignores = *.o *.lo *.la #*# .*.rej *.rej .*~ *~ .#* .DS_Store enable-auto-props = yes [auto-props] *.c = svn:eol-style=native;svn:keywords=Author Date Id Revision *.cpp = svn:eol-style=native;svn:keywords=Author Date Id Revision *.h = svn:eol-style=native;svn:keywords=Author Date Id Revision *.hpp = svn:eol-style=native;svn:keywords=Author Date Id Revision *.dsp = svn:eol-style=CRLF *.dsw = svn:eol-style=CRLF *.sh = svn:eol-style=native;svn:executable;svn:keywords=Author Date Id Revision *.txt = svn:eol-style=native *.png = svn:mime-type=image/png *.jpg = svn:mime-type=image/jpeg Makefile = svn:eol-style=native;svn:keywords=Author Date Id Revision *.jpeg = svn:mime-type=image/jpeg *.gif = svn:mime-type=image/gif *.svg = svn:mime-type=image/svg+xml *.htm = svn:mime-type=text/html *.html = svn:mime-type=text/html *.css = svn:mime-type=text/css *.pdf = svn:mime-type=application/pdf SConstruct = svn:eol-style=native;svn:keywords=Author Date Id Revision *.xml = svn:eol-style=native;svn:mime-type=text/xml *.py = svn:eol-style=native;svn:executable;svn:keywords=Author Date Id Revision