Re: [Savannah-help-public] CVS access to git repository? (gawk project)

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi All.

> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 23:01:39 +0100
> From: Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Savannah-help-public] CVS access to git repository? (gawk 
> project)
>
> I re-reset the DB, thanks for the hint!
>
> - Sylvain

Thanks. Basic checkouts work.  However, it seems that the -kb option
for the CVS client is ignored. This is the report from my Windows
maintainer, who cannot use Git:

> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:02:42 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: cvs <-> git gateway
> To: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> 
>> [...]
> 
> It works on Windows, but there's a small problem: the -kb switch to
> "cvs co" doesn't seem to work.
> 
> I always use -kb with "co" and "up" on Windows, to avoid the
> end-of-line mangling.  It works for me with other CVS repositories
> (e.g., GDB), but not with this gateway: I get all the text files
> converted to DOS CRLF end-of-line format, and a few files that have
> DOS end-of-line format (btw, why do you have such files in the
> repository?) get their CR characters doubled.
> 
> Can this be fixed, please?

Thanks for any and all help,

Arnold