Gavin Lambert
I'm just suggesting that (if it makes sense with how the conversion tool actually works -- I don't know much about it) a higher priority rule be added to the conversion tool that says "mime type */*+xml in svn => text attribute in git", which would then result in SVG files being marked as text and all other files marked as images.
Such changes can be made.
Though it'd still require the files to be dos2unix'd if the conversion was run on Linux
As mentioned elsewhere, that's incorrect. The files are never checked out into a working copy during the conversion process. That would be hella-slow.
-- if it was run on Windows then the text attribute by itself should fix the problem.
Another possibility might be to explicitly mark all text files in .gitattributes with eol=lf and then run the conversion; I think that would fix the repository blobs,
What goes into .gitattributes has no effect on the content of blobs in the repository.
and then the eol attribute can be removed for actual use.