Re: mingw, windows, crlf/lf, and git

From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Feb 14, 2007, 18:17 UTC
Message-ID: <200702141917.51341.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <45D346B6.5020802@verizon.net>

onsdag 14 februari 2007 18:28 skrev Mark Levedahl:

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> As to cvsnt, my actual feeling is I'd like to kick it in the ass, it has 
> destroyed too many files for me over the years, binary and text, so I 
> don't think its strategies are very good. That is why I'm kicking these 
> ideas around, if I thought I knew the "right" way I would have written 
> it already.

That may be why an excellent piece of software, TortoiseCVS, doesn't trust cvs or cvsnt to do the job. Here is how they do the binary detection (and some more):

http://tortoisecvs.cvs.sourceforge.net/tortoisecvs/TortoiseCVS/src/CVSGlue/CVSStatus.cpp?revision=1.172&view=markup

-- robin

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