Re: cvs server not translating line endings correctly

[Antonio Bemfica]

On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, David H. Thornley wrote:

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> BTW, this will leave a bunch of ,v files in the repository with
> the ^Ms on them.  If I were to run some sort of ^M-removing
> script on them, should they be perfectly usable afterwards?
> Are there things to watch for that I wouldn't notice immediately
> after running it (I figure I back up and test immediately)?

I tried just that a few days ago (well, something very similar: somehow a
bunch of files actually were commited which had \r as end-of-line (not \r\n
as in DOS nor \n as in Unix) - this was due to a screwy editor plus jCVS). 

It did not work as well as I expected. I could checkout a file, but 'cvs
log' and cvsweb would fail - I assume there were other problems, but that
was enough to set off some alarm bells. I just restored the ,v file back
and ran the script on a checked out copy instead. 

A.