Make sure you have a ~/.subversion/config. Simply using it (svn --help) will cause a default one to be created if you don't already have one. Make the following changes to ~/.subversion/config: Set: enable-auto-props = yes Append/edit auto-props section: [auto-props] *.c = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.h = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.s = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.S = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.cc = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.cpp = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.cxx = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.in = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.sh = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain; svn:executable *.pl = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain; svn:executable *.pm = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.py = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.rb = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.awk = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.sed = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.txt = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.conf = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.po = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain Makefile* = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.1 = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.2 = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.3 = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.4 = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.5 = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.6 = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.7 = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.8 = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.9 = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/plain *.css = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/css *.html = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/html *.xhtml = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/html+xml *.xml = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/xml *.xsd = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/xml *.xsl = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/xml *.xslt = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/xml *.xul = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/xul *.sgml = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/sgml *.docbook = svn:eol-style=native; svn:keywords=FreeBSD=%H; svn:mime-type=text/sgml *.pdf = svn:mime-type=application/pdf *.ps = svn:mime-type=application/postscript *.eps = svn:mime-type=application/postscript *.exe = svn:mime-type=application/octet-stream *.bin = svn:mime-type=application/octet-stream *.jpg = svn:mime-type=image/jpeg *.jpeg = svn:mime-type=image/jpeg *.gif = svn:mime-type=image/gif *.png = svn:mime-type=image/png *.tiff = svn:mime-type=image/tiff