Re: make cvs text agnostic?

[Jouni Heikniemi]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Matthew Hannigan wrote:

> Jouni Heikmniemi also mentioned that 8bit text would make it difficult. 
>   I still think that for the typical case (source code) the detection 
> would be quite reliable.

Depends. But I think that writing a frontend which would ask a
confirmation about all the files about to be marked as binary would be an
acceptable solution in most cases. 

> Even when the client and server are Windows?
> If so then CVS does do some automagic detection?

Even in Windows. CVSNT and CVS repositories are compatible, so you can
just copy a NT repository over to a unix box. The same goes for
servers: linefeed replacements operate equally regardless of server
OS. The cross-mounting is the problem, as already stated here.


Jouni