[cvsnt] --lf obsolete?

[Yongwei Wu]

On 8/27/06, David Somers <dsomers at omz13.com> wrote:
> Yongwei Wu wrote:
>
> > On 8/27/06, David Somers <dsomers at omz13.com> wrote:
> >> Glen Starrett wrote:
> >> > It's reasonable to keep some functionality for backward ability, but I
> >> > believe there was some sort of issue with that.
> >>
> >> You could screw your repository if you didn't know what you are doing.
> >
> > What is the issue? And how can I screw my repository?
> >
> > My worst experience in this respect was that I wrongly committed a DOS
> > file as a UNIX file, and CVS thought all lines were changed. But that
> > was reversible and correctible, so I do not think it `screwed' the
> > repository.
>
> OK. Perhaps 'screwed' was too strong (since you can recover the file)...
>
> It is mainly the issue that you commit with the wrong line endings... you
> get into trouble later on since some applications can't cope with being
> given wrong line endings (e.g. in the past I've had Windows applications
> crash when I've fed them files with unix lineends instead of Windows
> linenends). IIRC, Visual Studio 6 is very sensitive about lineendings in
> prj files.

It is really not that serious, and I strongly suggest drop the new
warning. The same thing can happen if the DOS files are committed
under Linux... I really saw such things happen when people who were
supposed to work under Linux really copied files from Windows machines
to Linux ones by scp (not FTP, which could correct the line ending).

One must know what one is doing. `--lf' is not a default option: when
one uses it, it is exactly like copying the file to a *NIX machine and
doing things there. No one will blame you if he/she screwed things.

A doubt here (cannot test right away): If I use `k+L' to check out the
files, and I make the files into DOS line endings accidentally, won't
the same things happen?

Best regards,

Yongwei
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