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Re: cvsserver and wincvs (cvsgui)

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Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
Date
Apr 13, 2007, 00:05 UTC
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<20070413000532.GI7085@planck.djpig.de>
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On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 06:54:22PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
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> Anybody got any experience with wincvs and cvsserver, or any idea how 
> things could be different between git-cvsserver and real cvs? He's 
> presently going to use his own version control and just send us results, 
> but it would be nice if this could be magically worked out before we 
> started working together closely again in a couple of weeks.

Looks like a problem with newline conversion. You should probably try the gitcvs.allbinary option (available since 1.5.0 I think), that makes git-cvsserver send all files with -kb which should suppress the conversion.

Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de>
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