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Tony That would make sense that the LF/CRLF issue is one of distribution and let's let the build script do LF only check out. Thanks. > -----Original Message----- > From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org > [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org]On Behalf > Of Tony Hoyle > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 10:34 AM > To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook > Subject: Re: [cvsnt] CVSNT,WinCVS & LineFeed option - looking for best > practice > > > On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 10:15:48 -0800, "Ian Huynh" <ianh at hubspan.com> > wrote: > > >So our initial inclination is to enforce a new rule that all > files checkout uses ONLY UNIX LF. > > > >so the questions are > > > >1. are there any potential problems that people may have run into ? > > As long as cygwin users checkout/in using cygwin CVS and WinCVS users > checkout using WinCVS then there will not be an issue. If you mix > them then it's an accident waiting to happen (the sandboxes may not be > entirely compatible anyway these days). > > Personally I would make sure that users had only one of the two on > their machines, to avoid accidents. (Actually I would probably remove > cygwin and make a couple of Linux boxes available for Unix testing). > > Another way to handle it is to do admin -kL on the affected files, > which forces them to unix linefeeds. Only do this though if the > win32 build tools won't barf. > > >2. would I get a large amount files being different if I do this ? > > > If you did it to everything, then a lot of the Win32 build tools would > fail because they need CR/LF. > > Enforcing that people checkout using LF seems to me to be just making > life harder without any real benefit. CVS handles the CR/LF issues > well - CVSNT itself is built on multiple platforms. The issue is only > one of distribution... presumably you're distributing these Unix files > in some way - in that case only your distribution script needs to do > any kind of LF only checkout. > > Tony > > _______________________________________________ > cvsnt mailing list > cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook > http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs >