Hello Christian, * On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 03:07:14PM +0200 Christian Hujer wrote:
> > But that is the way CVS works now. The client *WILL* do this > > modification. > No, the windows client will only do this modification if you told the client > to do so. You can enable / disable this. The windows cvs client is able to > checkout non-"-kb"-files (text files) with LF without converting LF to CR/LF. > At least this is true for WinCVS. I don't consider WinCVS (that is, cvsnt) a cvs client. It is cvsnt, not cvs, although it is compatible to a high degree. > And afair cvs on Cygwin does not perform any CR/LF conversion at all. Hm, well... I'm not sure if it is the CVS client on cygwin or cygwin itself (if installed to utilize CR/LF endings), but on cygwin, this conversion takes place. Although CR/LF vs. LF is a problem in itself, I would not recommend using cygwin and cvs in "LF only" mode. I have done so before, and I encountered many problems this way, most often these were some garbled output. It just does not work as it should. Furthermore, the "natural" ending on Windows machines is CR/LF, if you like it or not. It does not make much sense to use LF only and be restricted to some specific editors and other programs which can handle the LF only. Many programs will convert LF to CR/LF (or, even worse, will behave erroneously), thus, this is not a good alternative. BTW: Personally, I would consider a Windows program which cannot handle CR/LF as broken. It is like I would tell you "I can speak chinese" but not being able to understand or write even one sentence in it. Best regards, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://cbm4win.sf.net/ http://www.trikaliotis.net/ http://www.viceteam.org/ _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
