[cvsnt] --lf obsolete?

David Somers dsomers at omz13.com
Sun Aug 20 13:33:06 BST 2006


Yongwei Wu wrote:

> After updating cvsnt, I got this error message:
> 
> cvs: Obsolete --lf option used.  Please update your client.
> 
> May I ask why?

(IIRC there was an edge case where you could somehow corrupt your
sandbox/repository if you used --lf -- it bypassed some linefeed
proccessing)

The preferred (cvsnt) method is to use the -k+L option instead.

-- 
David Somers
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