----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Riechers, Matthew W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: Logging Windows code on Linux CVS


> > CVS converts the local system's format to a canonical format on the
> > server and vice versa. If you checkout, edit, and commit all on one
> > platform, you shouldn't see problems with missing or extra EOL
> > characters. You are almost guaranteed to have problems if you mix
> > incompatable platforms between these three steps.
> 
> No problems.... until someone mangled the newlines by insertting carriage
> returns.  If you use cygwin cvs, don't use wincvs (or the native windows
> cvs).  Someone made a stupid assumption that removing newlines was a good
> idea... instead of just maintaining em - heck why not replace tabs with
> spaces too?
> 
> >
> > -Matt
> >
> >
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