Re: [Savannah-help-public] CVS access to git repository? (gawk project)

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

I don't think this is supported by git-pserver.
This is not a complete CVS replacement.

- Sylvain

On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 08:48:01PM +0200, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> Hi All.
> 
> > Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 23:01:39 +0100
> > From: Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden>
> > To: address@hidden
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: [Savannah-help-public] CVS access to git repository? (gawk 
> > project)
> >
> > I re-reset the DB, thanks for the hint!
> >
> > - Sylvain
> 
> Thanks. Basic checkouts work.  However, it seems that the -kb option
> for the CVS client is ignored. This is the report from my Windows
> maintainer, who cannot use Git:
> 
> > Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:02:42 +0200
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> > Subject: Re: cvs <-> git gateway
> > To: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> > 
> >> [...]
> > 
> > It works on Windows, but there's a small problem: the -kb switch to
> > "cvs co" doesn't seem to work.
> > 
> > I always use -kb with "co" and "up" on Windows, to avoid the
> > end-of-line mangling.  It works for me with other CVS repositories
> > (e.g., GDB), but not with this gateway: I get all the text files
> > converted to DOS CRLF end-of-line format, and a few files that have
> > DOS end-of-line format (btw, why do you have such files in the
> > repository?) get their CR characters doubled.
> > 
> > Can this be fixed, please?
> 
> Thanks for any and all help,
> 
> Arnold