[cvsnt] Samba share and line endings

Torsten Martinsen torsten at vip.cybercity.dk
Sun Jun 18 20:56:13 BST 2006


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David Somers wrote:

>Torsten Martinsen wrote:
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>>Jason Wisnieski wrote:
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>>>That same post I found suggests using the -k+L option on checkout as a
>>>safer
>>>method than --lf. cvsnt doesn't recognize this kopt, however. Could
>>>someone
>>>please offer me a solution for maintaining this shared sandbox?
>>>      
>>>
>>Since noone has responded to this, and since I have also discovered that
>>-k+L only works against CVSNT servers, I have to assume that there is no
>>way to maintain a sandbox with UNIX line endings using current CVSNT
>>client versions?
>>
>>This is quite important to me, as it will mean that TortoiseCVS cannot
>>any longer offer this feature.
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>I think this is a (minor) problem with tortoise.
>
>When you choose to checkout with unix lineendings, its doing
>cvs --lf co module ....
>instead of
>cvs co -k+L module
>
>So the cvsnt client will throw up a warning... but your files will still be
>correctly co'd with unix lineends.
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>
That may be, but will this continue to be the case, seeing as the option 
is deprecated?

BTW, the warning message is "Obsolete --lf option used. Please update 
your client", which is kind of weird as I *am* already using the latest 
client.

-Torsten (TortoiseCVS maintainer)



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