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

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi.

>From what I can see, if you can add the gitcvs.allbinary configuration
parameter to be true in the gawk Git repo, this will do the trick.

If you could set it (or tell me how I can set this - I didn't see a way
for me to do it), I'd appreciate it.

Thanks again for the help,

Arnold

> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 18:47:22 +0100
> From: Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden>
> To: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Savannah-help-public] CVS access to git repository? (gawk 
> project)
>
> 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