Re: -t/-f in cvswrappers

[Rex_Jolliff]

DAve Goodrich <address@hidden> on 04/13/2001 12:03:25 PM
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                


                                                              
                                                              
                                                              
 To:       Larry Jones <address@hidden>                 
                                                              
 cc:       address@hidden(bcc: Rex Jolliff/YM/RWDOE)        
                                                              
                                                              
                                                              
 Subject:  Re: -t/-f in cvswrappers                           
                                                              




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>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.

the line endings should get translated by the client.  If they are not
being translated, then there is a problem with that client.  Perhaps it
is misconfigured.

>> 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.

I do not think you understood his question.  Are you using the pserver
method, the rsh/ssh method or a shared drive to access the cvs
repository.  If you are using a shared drive, then this is your
problem.

>>> 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

> 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.

All these things can be done using a trigger script placed in the commitinfo
file.

Rex.