[cvsnt-dev] Re: building cvsnt

Dennis freelance96 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 25 16:54:08 GMT 2005


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From: "Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nodomain.org>
>>     I'm building cvsnt from the source code. I want to eliminate "\r\n" 
>> conversion for .c/.cpp/.mk files since I edit them on the samba share of 
>> some unix host in windows. However i have several doubts:
>
> You want to deliberately corrupt your repository.  Do not do this.

I'm commiting files always in unix style. (0x0a only)
And moreover i will always convert 0d0a to 0a.

>
>>     (2) would you suggest which files i should alter to skip "\r\n" 
>> conversion for checkout/get/commit? (maybe getdelim.c? and others?)
>
> The *is* no conversion.  It's built into the operating system.  You would 
> have to rewrite the file I/O layer.
>
> Furthermore if you do manage to break the client in this way future 
> versions of the server will not allow you to commit as they now have 
> checks to protect the integrity of the repository.
>
>>     (3) is it possible to compile it using vc6.0 (my favorite version)? I
>

Anyway, thanks so much.

Dennis




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