"Tolkin, Steve" wrote:
>
> I think that CVS is still using the same file format used by RCS,
> even though it no longer uses the RCS executables to do its work.
True
> I also think that the RCS file should always follow the Unix
> convention for a newline, i.e. use the single character \n, even
> on DOS and Windows systems.
I don't think it's documented anywhere. cvsnt has patches which make this
true. 'raw' cvs has slight incompatibilities, so you can't share repositories
between NT and Unix with it.
> In contrast the work file should always use the "native" newline
> convention, i.e. \r\n on DOS and Windows.
If by work file you mean checked out files on the client, then yes.
Tony
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