Re: Could timestamps be replaced with MD5?

[Sean Cavanaugh]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Roehrig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mitch Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "CVS mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 6:15 AM
Subject: Re: Could timestamps be replaced with MD5?


>
> 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.)
>

The timestamp and (future :) md5 or checksum code is and will be a
client-only feature, the server isn't involved.  Whatever the client pulls
down from the server is calculated by the client and thrown into the local
CVS/Entries, and the client looks at that and the local files to see if
things are out of date.  The server isn't part of it, so no problem there.