In article <BC9F3B11.91AE%darylew@hotmail.com>, Daryle Walker <darylew@hotmail.com> wrote:
On 4/9/04 7:34 PM, "Miro Jurisic" <macdev@meeroh.org> wrote:
FWIW, CVS regulates (inasmuch as CVS regulates anything) that the client canonicalize text files before sending them, and the server sends the files to the client in a canonical form, as you thought.
So, the initial CVS client has to convert the text file to UNIX format? And the server won't sanity-check this in either direction, which means a later client will apply the UNIX-to-native translation on a file that may not be in the UNIX format?
I am not sure how you think you got into this state; if all clients perform newline conversion and the server is not buggy then the client will never perform UNIX-to-native conversion on a file that doesn't have UNIX newlines.
The system would only work right if the uploading and downloading clients both correctly do UNIX translation
Yes, the system does depend on that. meeroh -- If this message helped you, consider buying an item from my wish list: <http://web.meeroh.org/wishlist>