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Re: make cvs text agnostic?
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Frederic Brehm |
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Re: make cvs text agnostic? |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Aug 2002 08:04:35 -0400 |
At 06:59 AM 8/27/2002, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
I've been lurking on the list for a while,
and have noticed that many of the questions
seem to hinge on text files and storing and
extracting them the right way for your platform.
The CVS clients already do this. The problem comes when people use a file
system cross mounted on several different kinds of OS, checkout on one OS,
and then edit and commit on another OS.
Autodetection of binary
There are enough times when autodetection gets the wrong answer that many
people on this list will vigorously oppose having CVS doing this
automagically. You can always write a script for yourself that will
autodetect and do a "cvs add -b" or "cvs add" as appropriate. I personally
would suggest a manual confirmation step for each file, unless you are
really 100% sure that your script always gets the right answer.
Fred
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Frederic W. Brehm, Sarnoff Corporation, http://www.sarnoff.com/