Re: cvs inserting double ^M

[Eric Siegerman]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 03:17:14PM -0600, Mark Offutt wrote:
> When others do a cvs update to get cvs commits from Joe, 
> the files in question show up with inserted double control Ms (^M^M) at 
> the end of each line.
> 
> The culprit appears to be the particular version of cvs that Joe uses. 
> The only difference that we find between his version and the rest of the 
> team is that his is the server version (we all use GNU CVS for Win2K 1.11).

I suspect that the "client" vs. "client/server" is a red herring.
If I understand the distinction, it should have no bearing on
newline conversion.

Perhaps Joe has a .cvsrc (or the Windows equivalent) that forces
all commits to "-kb".  That would be one explanation for this
behaviour.

BTW, 1.11 is ancient -- many bugs have been fixed since then.
All of you (not just "Joe") should consider upgrading to 1.11.5.

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