On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> Would it be a good enhancement to automagically
> always extract the file in the natural way
> for your platform? The actual format in the
> repository would not matter at all; cvs would
> just do the right thing.
This is exactly how CVS works now,
At 06:59 AM 8/27/2002, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
>I've been lurking on the list for a while,
>and have noticed that many of the questions
>seem to hinge on text files and storing and
>extracting them the right way for your platform.
The CVS clients already do this. The problem comes when people us
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 wha
At 09:20 AM 8/27/2002, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
JH:
> > This is exactly how CVS works now, except that the format
> > used in the repo is fixed to be the unixish text file format.
Disclaimer about the CVS NT server: this may or may not be true...I don't know.
>Even when the client and server are
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> 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.
Depends. But I think that writing a frontend which would ask a
confirmation
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
> I've been lurking on the list for a while,
> and have noticed that many of the questions
> seem to hinge on text files and storing and
> extracting them the right way for your platform.
>
> Would it be a good enhancement to automagically
> always ex
>On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
>
> > Autodetection of binary, and perfect reversible
>> conversion between text formats is quite feasible,
>> so this scheme should fly
>
>Autodetecting between binary and text is far from trivial. It's fairly
>easy when you're talking about En
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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?
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. S
hi all,
re this conversation of file types -- why autodetect them, isn't that the
whole point
of a file type, given in every file's extension? heuristic detection of
binariness -- yuck!
a mechanism already exists to tell with this problem -- why don't people
just make a whopper of a cvswrappers
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>re this conversation of file types -- why autodetect them, isn't that the
>whole point
>of a file type, given in every file's extension? heuristic detection of
>binariness -- yuck!
That only works if you have a strict naming convention. The canonical
At 09:58 PM 8/28/2002, Matthew Herrmann wrote:
>re this conversation of file types -- why autodetect them, isn't that the
>whole point
>of a file type, given in every file's extension? heuristic detection of
>binariness -- yuck!
Exactly!
>a mechanism already exists to tell with this problem --
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>re this conversation of file types -- why autodetect them, is
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 09:40:00AM +1000, Matthew Herrmann wrote:
> you are working on a project with files called *.doc, some containing text
> and some containing binary. People have complained they don't like adding
> the -kb and many get it wrong.
>
> do you
> b) say "well from now on don't c
This can
be done either on the command line directly when adding files, or by
writing a light wrapper about "cvs add" and supplying a table.
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