Re: -t/-f in cvswrappers

[DAve Goodrich]

on 4/12/01 4:36 PM, Larry Jones at address@hidden wrote:

> DAve Goodrich writes:
>> 
>> Hello all. I'm running into a problem with clients that send files to the
>> repository with Mac or Win file endings.
> 
> What clients are these?  It is the client's responsibility to convert
> text files from whatever the local line ending convention is to the
> canonical line-feed termination before sending them to the server.  If
> that isn't happening, the clients are buggy or misconfigured.
> 
We have several people using MacCVSClient, which uses Mac line endings by
default. The developer knows that people who are creating code that must
eventually live on a Unix box(web pages) have a problem with this (me) and
he is working to remedy that.

> You
> aren't using some kind of shared file system and trying to commit files
> from a different platform than the one you're running on, are you?
Nope creating web pages on Mac/Windows and serving from Unix.

>> But I get an error that "cvs [server aborted]: -t/-f wrappers not supported
>> by this version of CVS"
> 
> There were bugs in the -t/-f wrapper code that could cause silent loss
> of information, which is *not* something you want a revision control
> system to do under any circumstances, so they were disabled until
> someone got around to fixing them.  That was a couple of years ago.
> 
> -Larry Jones
Thanks, not what I wanted to hear, but oh well.

Seems that would be an extremely useful function. I would like to be able to
filter many things through a file prior to committing, check for common
copyright code at the bottom of a file, check for tags ($RCSfile$) at the
beginning of each file, things I must do weekly in code review. Odd it seems
to have been forgotten so long.

Wish I knew C

Thanks,

DAve


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