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Re: CVS and ^M
From: |
Noel Yap |
Subject: |
Re: CVS and ^M |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Jul 2002 07:00:23 -0700 (PDT) |
--- David Koski <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jul 2002 11:27:59 -0700 (PDT)
> Noel Yap <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > 3) Mount your drives as text and Cygwin's CVS
> should
> > do the translations as appropriate.
>
> Watch out. Lines already in the repository with ^M
> will be different. If you already have a file with
> all lines ending with CR,LF and you allow cygwin to
> translate to LF, then the whole file will be
> different. Do a "cvs diff myfile" before a commit
> to make sure you want to do that.
I've always used Cygwin in binary mode with editors
that understand one-character line endings. I had
thought, in order to use "closed-world" editors, one
would have to mount using text mode. Do to the lack
of real experience with this on my part, I would trust
your (ie David's) assessment and advice over mine.
Thanks,
Noel
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- Re: CVS and ^M, (continued)
Re: CVS and ^M, Mike Ayers, 2002/07/26