Re: Could timestamps be replaced with MD5?

[Tony Hoyle]

Martin Roehrig wrote:

> As I already wrote in a previous posting I think it is really a good idea.
> Right now I have seen a problem in it: CVS Windows clients automatically
> convert text file line endings from LF to CRLF and vice versa. So checksums
> computed on a Windows client will bedifferent from checksums computed on the
> (*nix) server. (I don't know how the WinNT CVS server stores textfiles.)
> 
Not a problem - The CVS client/server protocol specifies unix file sementics for text 
files,
so only the client has to worry about the CRLF problem (and it presumably already 
knows whether
it's the windows version or not...)

Tony

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