Hi,
I would like share my thaughts on "Having repository in one OS and development
in other OSes"
Actually I am windows developer, working on C++, VC++, etc those application
I can not develop in UNIX platforlms and at same time there is no better
source management tools on windows like CVS. So We have repositories on UNIOX
of Linix platforms and check out sources to windows platforms and do work
and commit to the repositories and I feel that It was very good.
At same time it is not very good to trust windows systems (Linux, Unix machines
have more stable than windows machines.)
So it's better to have repositories on Unix or Linix servers irrespective
of work env.
Thanks,
-Koti
Paul Sander wrote:
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Frederic Brehm wrote:
The CVS clients already do this. The problem comes when people use a file system cross mounted on several different kinds of OS, checkout on one OS, and then edit and commit on another OS.
I wonder why people do this? Anyway, it shouldn't matter, should it,even what Jouni says is true (see below)
The practice is common in shops that have policies against committingstuff that doesn't compile, and that require single sources that compileon all of their supported platforms. The developers tend to check outon their Unix boxes into a shared filesystem, debug and compile, thenswitch to Windows to debug and compile there, and finally commit the codefrom an arbitrary platform.
Autodetection of binary
There are enough times when autodetection gets the wrong answer that many people on this list will vigorously oppose having CVS doing this automagically.
Jouni Heikmniemi also mentioned that 8bit text would make it difficult. I still think that for the typical case (source code) the detection would be quite reliable. And reversible, except if you use doublechars where one of the chars just happened to be the same as a \r or \n.
Unfortunately, there are many types of source code. For programs writtenin, say, the C language, what you say is probably true. For messagecatalogs whose purpose is to match numbers with text in some arbitrarylanguage, it's a bit harder.Also, there are times going the other way, when a binary file iserroneously recognized as text.It is possible to build a mechanism that is accurate to any arbitrarylevel, but certain vocal members of this group seem to think that ifit can't be 100% reliable out of the box then it isn't worth implementing.
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