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Re: [Fwd: CVS, Cygwin, IDE and Emacs]


From: Noel Yap
Subject: Re: [Fwd: CVS, Cygwin, IDE and Emacs]
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 05:23:16 -0700 (PDT)

--- Mike Ayers <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Noel Yap wrote:
> 
> > 
> > First, some questions:
> > 1. Why do you have version control comments within
> the
> > files?
> 
>       I didn't set up the repository, I inherited it.  I
> could probably remove the 
> log, but some folk feel pretty strongly about
> keeping them in there.  It's a 
> bit of a moot point in this case, since there is
> almost zero chance of 
> branch-and-merge.

OTOH you're still having problems with it and there's
no real need for it since you can get the same
information from "cvs log".

I understand developers can get pretty religious about
these things.  Personnally, I find logs within source
annoying.  It's too much information when I don't need
it and gets in the way of the code.

> > 2. Is your working directory mounted as "binary"
> or as
> > "text"?
> 
>       All my cygwin drives are mounted "binary" as is the
> default.  As I (vaguely) 
> recall, mounting Cygwin drives "text" led to some
> bizarre complications.  Note 
> that the repository contains text and binary (i.e.
> Word documents) files.

I mount my Cygwin directories binary since I use
editors that keep things binary.  If you use editors
that insist on placing ^M's in the code, it's probably
better to mount the directories as text.

As for truly binary things, I think if you've told CVS
that these elements are really binary (I think you can
do this with "cvs add" and "cvs admin"), it should
treat them as such.

HTH,
Noel


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