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OK, you have said the magic words: "i am working in a sandbox on a solaris machine, using cvs 1.11.13. i want to use this sandox with WinCVS via a network drive(like R:\)." This is an UNSUPPORTED and DISCOURAGED configuration that will not result in any help whatsoever from the developers or most other people on the list! You are mixing tools from different operating systems among them and chaos will happen. As you have seen.... CVS is designed to be used in client/server ways with the sandbox of files checked out to a *LOCAL* disk on the workstation using a CVS client that is developed for the client operating system (Windows, *ix, Mac etc). These clients can handle all of the issues you ask about without problems if used that way. /Bo -----Original Message----- From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org]On Behalf Of Christian Kasper Sent: den 26 januari 2005 14:06 To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook Subject: RE: RE: [cvsnt] cvsnt on pc against a cvs remote repository onsolarisusing pserver hallo, i am sorry, i am desribing my environment not correctly. i am working in a sandbox on a solaris machine, using cvs 1.11.13. i want to use this sandox with WinCVS via a network drive(like R:\). in this case, i think, the option 'Checkout text files with unix lf' makes sense (????), because i am working via network drive on a *nix filesystem. i can see my solaris sandbox in WinCVS but many, not all, files under cvs control have a 'Modified' state. ok, i check these files local in the sandbox on solaris server, the cvs status command tells me *Up-to-date*. when i use the diff command local and with WinCVS, no differences appear. i try to update -A these -shown as Modified files-, that solves my problem, but is this the right way to do it or is it dangerous to my repository?? why these files are shown as modified? thank you christian --------------- If you are checking out sources to a Windows workstation and if you are using normal Windows tools then it is *dangerous* to use the flag you have used. The only reason I can see that this would be used is if you need some *ix-based tool to use the file (on Windows) and it cannot handle the CRLF line endings. But this is *very* seldom the case and if you check out using this option, then use a Windows editor to modify the file then commit it to cvs you have a high risk of getting a file in the repository that has corrupted line endings. This is probably because there is not a corresponding flag for commit as you have for checkout so the file will go into the repo with erroneous line endings. This was discussed at length only a week or so ago. Please search the archives. /Bo -----Original Message----- From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org]On Behalf Of Christian Kasper Sent: den 26 januari 2005 12:45 To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook Subject: [cvsnt] cvsnt on pc against a cvs remote repository on solarisusing pserver hallo, i am using cvsnt vers. 2.0.41a with WinCVS 1.3.17.2 aginst a remote repository on a solaris machine using cvs 1.11.13, my connection method is pserver. i learned to use 'Checkout text files with unix lf' (WinCVS Admin Menu - Preferences/Global) -- ok. but some files appear as 'modified' in WinCVS, on the solaris machine i try cvs status on these files, and they are not modified! do you know the reason for this? is my configuration dangerous? thank you christian _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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