[cvsnt] cvsnt on pc against a cvs remote repository onsolarisusing pserver

Bo Berglund Bo.Berglund at system3r.se
Wed Jan 26 15:20:20 GMT 2005


OK,
you have said the magic words:

"i am working in a sandbox on a solaris machine, using cvs 1.11.13.
i want to use this sandox with WinCVS via a network drive(like R:\)."

This is an UNSUPPORTED and DISCOURAGED configuration that will not result
in any help whatsoever from the developers or most other people on the
list!

You are mixing tools from different operating systems among them and chaos
will happen. As you have seen....

CVS is designed to be used in client/server ways with the sandbox of files
checked out to a *LOCAL* disk on the workstation using a CVS client that
is developed for the client operating system (Windows, *ix, Mac etc).
These clients can handle all of the issues you ask about without problems
if used that way.

/Bo


-----Original Message-----
From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org]On Behalf
Of Christian Kasper
Sent: den 26 januari 2005 14:06
To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
Subject: RE: RE: [cvsnt] cvsnt on pc against a cvs remote repository
onsolarisusing pserver


hallo,

i am sorry, i am desribing my environment not correctly.

i am working in a sandbox on a solaris machine, using cvs 1.11.13.

i want to use this sandox with WinCVS via a network drive(like R:\).

in this case, i think, the option 'Checkout text files with unix lf'  makes 
sense (????), because i am working via network drive on a *nix filesystem.

i can see my solaris sandbox in WinCVS but  many, not all, files under cvs 
control have a 'Modified' state. 

ok, i check these files local in the sandbox on solaris server, the cvs status 
command tells me *Up-to-date*.

when i use the  diff command local and with WinCVS, no differences appear.

i try to update -A these  -shown as Modified files-, that solves my problem,
but is this the right way to do it or is it dangerous to my repository?? 

why these files are shown as modified?

thank you

christian



---------------
If you are checking out sources to a Windows workstation and if you are using
normal Windows tools then it is *dangerous* to use the flag you have used.

The only reason I can see that this would be used is if you need some *ix-based
tool to use the file (on Windows) and it cannot handle the CRLF line endings.

But this is *very* seldom the case and if you check out using this option,
then use a Windows editor to modify the file then commit it to cvs you have
a high risk of getting a file in the repository that has corrupted line endings.
This is probably because there is not a corresponding flag for commit as you
have for checkout so the file will go into the repo with erroneous line endings.

This was discussed at length only a week or so ago. Please search the archives.

/Bo

-----Original Message-----
From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org]On Behalf
Of Christian Kasper
Sent: den 26 januari 2005 12:45
To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
Subject: [cvsnt] cvsnt on pc against a cvs remote repository on
solarisusing pserver


hallo,

i am using cvsnt vers. 2.0.41a  with WinCVS 1.3.17.2 aginst a remote repository 
on a solaris machine using cvs 1.11.13, my connection method is pserver.

i learned to use 'Checkout text files with unix lf' (WinCVS Admin Menu - 
Preferences/Global) -- ok.

but some files appear as 'modified' in WinCVS, on the solaris machine i try
cvs status on these files, and they are not modified!

do you know the reason for this?

is my configuration dangerous?

thank you

christian



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