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

Glen Starrett grstarrett at cox.net
Thu Mar 18 16:22:36 GMT 2004


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Jean-Francois Delage wrote:

> 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).

Tortoise has an option in the checkout to "use UNIX line endings", does 
this do what you need?  You could probably add the appropriate switch to 
your cvsrc (?) to send that to all checkouts automatically.

> 
> 
> 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?
> 

Can't help on that one, maybe someone else knows.

-- 
Glen Starrett



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