[cvsnt] Preventing CVS client from performing CRLF conversion - part 2

Jean-Francois Delage delage at ltrim.com
Thu Mar 18 14:11:39 GMT 2004


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We are in a mixed Linux/Windows/Cygwin environment: our servers are
Linux based, and network home drives shared through Samba. The
repository is NOT CVSNT based. Most desktop boxes are windows based, and
we have a Linux based cluster for analog circuit simulations. All of our
windows machines feature TortoiseCVS and Cygwin's cvs. We keep bash and
perl scripts as well as our simulation files on the repository as a way
to implement "quality control" on our designs.

Since our home drives are the same in the Linux and windows
environments, it often happens that users first checkout a module with
Tortoise, and then after switch to the Linux cluster to submit their
jobs. These involve scripts downloaded from the repository, and they
won't launch if CRLFs are found in the files.

We don't fear any CRCRLF problems since our server performs a dos2unix
filtering into incoming text files.

I know the simple way to address this is to checkout modules with the
unix flavoured version of cvs (not cvsnt), but most of our users are not
computer hackers and are quite pleased with Tortoise. (I must admit I do
myself appreciate the colored Icons).


Another question then: I managed to get cvs to work on a dummy test
sandbox checked out with cvsnt client by performing a dos2unix
conversion on the files in the CVS directory. Do you see any real danger
in doing this?

Thanks for your answers


JF

-----Original Message-----
From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf
Of Bo Berglund
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 5:41 AM
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Subject: [cvsnt] Re: preventing CVS client from performing CRLF
conversion

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:38:16 -0500, "Jean-Francois Delage"
<delage at ltrim.com> wrote:

> 
>            I wanted to know if there is any way to prevent the cvsnt
>(windows) client from performing LF -> CRLF conversion on text files
>when checking out (or updating) a module.

Yes there is, but you want to be *VERY* sure that you know all the
implications before you try this!
Please describe your setup and why you don't want the files to check
out with the proper line endings for the platform they are checked out
to.


/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)
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