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Glen Starrett wrote: > David Somers wrote: >> It would be easy to hide that message is -Q or -q mode is set... Tony, >> thoughts/objections? > > FYI, Tony is out on vacation until late next week. Sunning himself somewhere nice? > It's reasonable to keep some functionality for backward ability, but I > believe there was some sort of issue with that. You could screw your repository if you didn't know what you are doing. > From Tony's message it > looks like update -k+L will work even against cvshome servers. > > This is from a post "Re: Question about --lf" on Feb 11 06: > >>>> > It results in a client that can potentially send invalid data to the > server... it's just a global switch into Unix mode. If you try to > commit a DOS text file with it it'll send the CRLF pairs unmodified and > screw up the server copy of the file (CVSNT servers detect this problem, > but cvshome servers just write what the client sends into the RCS file). > > If you update -k+L that'll do the same thing in a safe manner. > > Tony > <<<< I'm not sure that cvshome will accept kopts +L. -- David Somers typographer/programmer/whatever