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Re: Dummie: Unix and WinX files


From: Larry Jones
Subject: Re: Dummie: Unix and WinX files
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:49:45 -0400 (EDT)

Didier Dubois writes:
> 
> Here we are using CVS for development using Unix AND Windows
> workstations. This lead us to the unfamous problem of Dos2Unix and
> Unix2Dos conversions.
> 
> Is there a way in CVS to tell him to remove the \r from the WinX files
> to be sure that diffs are correctly done? 

Don't share working directories between DOS and Unix.  CVS (clients)
handle the line endings correctly -- as long as you always use DOS tools
in DOS working directories and Unix tools in Unix working directories,
you won't have any problems.

-Larry Jones

All this was funny until she did the same thing to me. -- Calvin



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