--- Mike Ayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've got a CVS repository (cvs 1.11) for a project > that was originally being > built by makefiles under Cygwin, but has since been > moved to a Windows IDE for > development. All is generally well, with one > problem. I still check the > files in and out from Cygwin, but the text files now > have DOS line ends > instead of Unix. This is not really a problem, as I > use the '-b' switch when > diffing. However, Cygwin CVS uses vi (Vim) as the > editor for checkin comments > (when I don't use -m), leaving Unix line ends on the > comment lines, which CVS > leaves as is. Emacs loads the file in Unix mode if > even one line has a Unix > line end, so I get hundreds of lines (all the ones > I'm interested in) with ^M > at the end. > > I'm aware that this is not strictly a CVS issue, > but I believe that this is the > place where I'm most likely to find someone who has > encountered this before, > and perhaps solved it, or at least found a > workaround. I'm wondering what my > best option is. > > I could try to use emacs as my editor for the > comments, but I could only use > the floating window version (which is a slow load) > because I use scrollbars in > my Windows consoles, and "emacs -nw" fills the > entire buffer. > > If anyone has anything on this, I'd sure like to > hear it.
First, some questions: 1. Why do you have version control comments within the files? 2. Is your working directory mounted as "binary" or as "text"? 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
