Consistency of text file format (CR/LF and LF formats)

[Jonathan ILIAS]

Hello,

I often work on project where it is difficult to force developpers to 
use the same development environment. Thus, some files are in CRLF 
format and others in LF format. There is no problem here, almost every 
recent text editor read and write any of these formats.

In our coding standards, we use $Log$ keyword. If the main file has been 
written in CRLF format and if I write a LF format (as VI defaults) 
comment when commiting I get an inconsistency file where there is CRLF 
and LF terminated lines.

I think this is a CVS client side problem but it would be better if CVS 
server (the one which writes on the repository) was able to keep each 
file's end of line format consistensy.
Of course, I think it is only possible to solve the problem of having 
different formats in different modifications. If CVS get different 
formats in the same modification (e.g. one commiting), it is really an 
editor's error and CVS should not try to fix it.

I wish you will be able to understand me, I'm french and don't speak 
english very well.

Regards
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Jonathan ILIAS, technicien de laboratoire à l'ESEO
téléphone direct : 02 41 86 67 60