Re: cvsserver and wincvs (cvsgui)

From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Apr 13, 2007, 03:11 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704122309020.27922@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070413000532.GI7085@planck.djpig.de>

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:

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> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 06:54:22PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote:
> > 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.

That seems plausible; I think I'd read the documentation too while too sick and thought the fact that cvsserver, like git in general, doesn't change anything meant that it would also tell clients that nothing should be changed. Thanks; I've got a suitable version, and I'll try it and see if the user still has problems.

	-Daniel
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