Re: [Fwd: CVS, Cygwin, IDE and Emacs]

[Eric Siegerman]

On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 08:07:59PM -0700, Mike Ayers wrote:
>       Hmmm - if it's "supposed to just happen", then that may explain it. 
> Specifically, I am checking in DOS format files from a Unix format 
> environment, so I suspect that my (Unix format compiled) CVS client just 
> assumes that I have Unix format files and does no conversion, as it would not 
> need to, ordinarily.

Precisely.

> Then the answer would be to use WinCVS 
> after all, which would canonicalize the line ends for me, yes?

Yup.  Or a command-line CVS if you prefer, as long as it was
compiled natively under Windows.

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