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Tony Hoyle wrote: > On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:22:29 +0100, Luke Guest > <lguest at .nospam.bubball.com> wrote: > >>Now, the problems I see are: >> >>1) CRLF/LF. Can VC++ handle LF (I tried, but it died on the DSP's) so I'm >> thinking that the code can be, but not the DSP's (possibly import those >> as binary??). It would be easier to have all source in one format - LF, >> so GCC doesn't die. > > You should be checking out the files on the platform that they are > going to be used on. The Windows cvs clients automatically put CR/LF > pairs in the text files as they are checked out. The Unix clients > just use LF. Ok. So, if we use the VSSExtrator to convert our VSS repository into a CVS one, will the CRLF be sorted out on the intial commit; I suppose it will be ;-) > It's not a good idea to have the same name with different case. Win32 > clients will treat these as the same file. and Unix clients will treat Yeah, I'm aware of that. > them as different. The server is similar - the NT server will treat > them as the same file and the Unix server will treat them as > different. So you get confusion in any kind of mixed environment. This could definitely cause problems with the Windowze users here. >>So, essentially, is it better to run the server on a Linux box or Win32? > > It doesn't really matter... it depends mostly on your in-house > experience and how your network is set up (backup procedures, etc.) > > On Unix the 'standard' cvs is most stable (cvsnt is supported but > isn't as well tested, although the cvsnt.org cvs server is actually a > cvsnt server hosted on Linux so it's quite safe to use). On NT only > cvsnt is really useable. > >>Also, what *can* the loginfo be used for? I have been looking around and >>have seen that this is not supported in the NT version (so I read), but >>just before we commit ;-) to one platform over the other, can I have a few >>examples of what it is used for? > > loginfo works fine on cvsnt (where did you read it didn't?). Just somewhere around the web, I didn't notice exactly where... > commitinfo and loginfo can be used together to provide email > notification of checkins - the support.cvsnt-commits newsgroup is > generated by such a script. Ok, thanks. Luke.