Jerry Nairn schrieb:
> M$ systems do a lot of weird things, but it is cvs which does or does not
> convert line and file endings. Something had to be done for cross-platform
> support, and the choice was made to overload options already used for
> keyword expansion. So, maybe M$ line endings are funky, but M$ is not
> responsible for what cvs does about it.
I think this decision to mingle keyword expansion and distinction between text
and binary files is a real design flaw. The problem is that you can't use e.g.
cvs co -kk on a Windows machine if there are binary files in the directory
tree, as the -kk option overrides -kb in this case (and maybe also in other
cases) as far as I have seen.
I wonder whether we ever could separate these two things again without losing
backward compatibility?
Best regards
Martin
