At 09:43 PM 1/9/2004, Agosta, John M you wrote: >(w/ cross posting to gnu.cvs.help) > > >I set up the CVS (1.11.6-3) port to Windows that comes in Cygwin. >Everything worked fine, except checking out files with CVS was adding >extra lines to files -- under some circumstances---checked-out files had >the Windows \r\n line termination changed to \r\r\n. > >It appears to be an interaction between Cygwin and CVS. Using a Cygwin >port of a Unix shell appears to be necessary to running a command-line >CVS client from Windows---using the windows cmd prompt to run CVS gave >me errors. The configuration is simple. The archive is a remote file >system mounted on the client windows machine. All commands are run on >the client with CVSROOT pointing to the archive directory on the remote. > > >Here were the clues: The problem only appeared on one of two apparently >identical client machines. The archive files themselves were not >corrupted. All profile, install scripts, environment variables were >identical on both machines, but the mount command showed that the >mis-functioning machine mounted its directories in textmode, and the >functioning machine in binmode. Since there is no equivalent fstab file >in Cygwin, this configuration is read from in the Windows registry at >boot time. (See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-up-net/using.html#MOUNT-TABLE.) >The registry configuration is the first step in the Cygwin >setup.exe---It can be modified by re-running setup and choosing default >text file type == UNIX (without re-installing any files). > >Users who choose this setting will have to accept not being able to open >files saved by Cygwin commands (e.g. cat) in Windows notepad. >Fortunately most Windows applications (MS Word, VS6) have no problem >interpreting line breaks in unix style text files. > >I suppose that CVS is conservative when it archives files, and does not >"unixify" them, but interacts with Cygwin to modify them on checkout. >Is is possible to configure cvs to treat import and checkout >consistently when Cygwin mounts directories in textmode?
IIRC, no. There's history on this in the Cygwin email archives, if you're interested. It's a PTC <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC> situation for the CVS code. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/