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Tony Hoyle schrieb: > Yongwei Wu wrote: > >> Why do people use Cygwin, UWin, and such like on Windows? Why do >> people on Windows need UNIX line endings at all? :-) -- It is simply >> the way people who are used to UNIX work when they have to work on >> Windows. > > cygwin can use cr/lf quite happily (for example all my bash scripts are > edited in notepad) - it writes lf but then that's not really an issue > since cvsnt can read lf only files without any extra options. > >> For me, I often check out files on Windows from the SourceForge CVS >> server, and sometimes need to run/use them in Cygwin, or copy them >> around. It is much simpler if I check all files with UNIX line > > It clearly isn't much simpler as you have demonstrated - if you stick to > the correct line endings for windows everything works as intended. > > 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 Sorry, thats not true. If you have to compile for instance a gcc compiler with cygwin to use it as a cross compiler than there is no other way to checkout the gcc with unix line endings at all, or it won't compile. Ernst