Re: [Monotone-devel] monotone win32 crlf questions

[Jon Bright]

Hi Derek,

Derek Scherger wrote:

> I have not defined the get_linesep_conv or get_charset_conv hooks and 
> I'm using monotone under cygwin on winxp.

Assuming you're using the monotone distributed by Graydon, and assuming 
Graydon compiled that using MinGW as per my original porting 
instructions, using it under Cygwin may be the problem (though don't 
quote me on this).  I seem to recall there being some conflict between 
Cygwin stuff and MinGW stuff.  Does the same thing happen if you do the 
diff in a normal windows console?

> Thinking about this a bit more though it seems that normalizing line 
> endings in source files would cause some rather serious problems with 
> hash computations. Files with \n line separators on a linux system would 
> hash wildly differently than the same files with \r\n line separators on 
> a windows system.

The differences in normalisation are actually the reason for about half 
the self-tests failing on Windows.  This is something I've been meaning 
to look into, but haven't got to yet...

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Jon Bright
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