--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:57:46AM -0400, Larry > Jones wrote: > > > Willi Richert writes: > > > > And provided your CVS *users* follow the rules. > It's possible to > > defeat CVS's attempts to do this conversion. If > someone managed > > to do so, they could have checked CRLF's into the > repo. When you > > check out on UNIX, you'll get CRLF's. When you > check out on > > Windows, you'll get CRCRLF's [sic]. Both are > wrong, of course. > > > > There are several ways to screw this up: > > [two omitted] > > - Using Cygwin, or so I gather from the list > > > That's how it happened in the cases I know about. I > don't know > exactly how Cygwin works in the general case, but we > were getting > CRLFs committed from it. > > I believe Cygwin is supposed to work well with > standard Windows > line endings, but in this case it didn't, perhaps > having been > configured wrongly. I was thinking about > introducing WinCvs, > since we were just using Cygwin to check out code to > compile with > Visual C++, but never got to it before being laid > off. > > I suppose that if you use one version of Cygwin, > configured however, > and manipulate files with adapted Unix programs > compiled under the > same sort of configurations, that there won't be a > problem. However, > it looks to me like doing anything else is going to > be tricky.
I think there should be no problems if the directory in which the files live has been mounted in textmode. Noel __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
