James McMechan wrote:
> I at least was using a windows box with WinCVS to get plex86 since my home
> connection
> did not have a stupid firewall blocking all but http/ftp connections.
> So I could get the WinCVS login to work. Unfortunatly WinCVS changes all the
> line endings to windows
> format <CR><LF> and I had to run a script to convert the sources back to
> Unix format.
I believe WinCVS has an option to use Unix-style line endings on the 'Global'
options pane - does this not achieve the desired affect?
> All of which was somewhat of a pain.
> There may be some easy method to either go though the firewall as ftp or
> http CVS
> or to tell WinCVS not to change things. But my reading of the manuals was
> unenlighting.
> Nor could I frame a web search that produced helpful results.
Hmm... I see no reason why a web-like server protocol couldn't be added to CVS,
but it would be a time-consuming modification. I would suggest talking to your
firewall admin to get them to allow ssh outgoing connections, which they would
probably accept... alternatively, you may be interested in this:
http://www.nocrew.org/software/httptunnel.html
I haven't tried it, but it looks - interesting...
