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Victor Prylipko wrote: > Is it possible to say cvsnt.exe to checkout text files with unix style LF > mode ? > > I know about -kL option. > > But, if I try to checkout hole module and module consist of text files and > binary files, I can't use -kL option, becouse it applays to ALL checkouted > files. That's not how that option is supposed to be used! If you are sure that wherever you are, you always want those files checked out with LF-only, you should *add* them with this mode in the first place (or change their mode with cvs admin -kL after the fact). After this -kL becomes sticky, i.e. the file will always be treated as LF-only by default. There should however only be very few occasions where this is necessary. Most of the time it's much safer to just let CVS sort it all out by itself. Most people requesting this functionality turn out to be working on mapped Samba drives which is an unsupported (and probably soon technically impossible) setup. > When I using wincvs to checkout, I can set options "Checkout text files with > the Unix LF (0xa)". > > How to same thing with command-line cvs.exe. You should not use that option at all. It has only led to grief in the past. A few months ago, somebody posted a full finding about the behaviour of this command (i.e. all possible combinations of platforms, option on/off on checkout/commit, etc.) on the CVSGUI list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cvsgui/message/12103 Make sure you have read that post before using this option. The bottom line (for me at least) seemed to be that it is not really easily predictable (without consulting that table) what will happen to your files if you use that option. My guess is that it is likely to disappear from the UI in one of the next releases. Cheers, -- Oliver ---- ------------------ JID: ogiesen at jabber.org ICQ: 18777742 (http://wwp.icq.com/18777742)