> Philippe Ribet wrote: >> KHMan wrote: >>> Hanzac Chen wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> On Dec 6, 2007 4:32 PM, KHMan wrote: >>>> [snip] >>>> >>>> If it's a CVSNT problem, then I can't really help troubleshoot, no >>>> experience with it. >>>> >>>> I think it's CVSNT problem, on Windows, the default setting is using >>>> DOS >>>> format. I believe the CVS client knows it's talking with the server on >>>> Unix and converts all the text files to DOS format. But if the text >>>> file >>>> on the server is DOS format, it will also do the conversion. >>> >>> I guess line ending conversion needs to be 'smart', otherwise -- >>> disaster. Thanks for the report. >>> >> May be a policy could be defined? For example, all files could be in >> unix style in the repository. It's up to the windows tools to convert >> them (if needed) in windows style when downloaded. In fact, many windows >> tools will be able to understand unix style, which means conversion or >> no conversion will be no problem. > > My personal view: Like it or not, other CRLF files may enter the > archive sometime in the future. If not for tcc, then for other > projects where contributors work on different platforms. Setting > policies is a waste of time; this project has no resources, none > whatsoever, so let's not waste time on bureaucracy. > > Developers who are platform neutral should be well prepared for > this; line endings should be a non-issue. I would hazard to guess > that most others on this list do not have any problems. > > It's 2007, on Win32, developers who use multi-platform code should > be using a modern editor. Hence, I think a "no conversion" policy > should be practiced. Being of suspicious nature, I have never > asked any tool to transparently do such conversions for me, and as > far as I can recall, I've never had any problems with such things. > I like my bytes transferred exactly the way they are, thank you > very much. :-) > > In any case, any tool that converts CRLF to CRCRLF is horribly > broken, and a bug report should be filed. > > -- > Cheers, > Kein-Hong Man (esq.) > Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia > > > _______________________________________________ > Tinycc-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/tinycc-devel > > CVSNT.EXE co -kb option for binary mode keeps file unmodified.
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