On Friday, March 10, 2000 11:33 AM, Karen Baldwin
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> Hi; just discovered this group. Help!
> I have a question very similar to that first asked within this thread.
>
> We've been using CVS exclusively on Solaris/Unix
> until now. We are now porting to NT. We intend to have a single source
> repository on a Solaris machine, which will be accessed by users on
> BOTH the
> NT and Solaris nodes. We'll be using Samba as the cross-platform file
> access
> mechanism.
>
> Until now I speculated that maybe the proper thing to do is to
> employ the cvswrappers file. specifically, using the -f option to
> invoke
> 'unix2dos' when a checkout is performed from the NT side, and to invoke
> 'dos2unix' when a checkin is performed from the NT side. When a
> checkin/checkout is done from the Unix side, we'd (somehow?) preclude
> those
> utilities from being run.
>
> Is this unrealistic? Is this a naive approach, doomed to failure?
> Is there a preferred approach that's been found to work by others
> who've 'been there' already?
I think the historical consensus for this scenario is to use CVS in a
client/server mode and let the client sort out line terminations. We use
WinCVS as a Windows/NT front end and CVS in pserver mode on our Unix
server.
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