RE: Could timestamps be replaced with MD5?

[Leeuw, Guus (G.)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Roehrig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

> 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.)

I don't think this should/will be a problem as the client cvs
is supposed to calculate the MD5 checks anyways.

Maybe, Mitch, that you would have to team up with the WinCVS
peoples. But that is a different story :-)))

Cheers,
Guus