DVS and lfs

goran.hultgren at bluefish.se goran.hultgren at bluefish.se
Fri Nov 1 08:05:30 UTC 2002


Avi Bryant <avi at beta4.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Göran Hultgren wrote:
> 
> > Quoting Avi Bryant <avi at beta4.com>:
> > > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 danielv at netvision.net.il wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Avi, all.
> > > >
> > > > Well, filing out using DVS adds lf to my line endings.
> > > >
> > > > Avi, you said before that this comes from working with CVS, which
> > > > requires it.
> >
> > CVS does not require lfs. It is up to the CVS client executable to convert the
> > local line ending on the client OS to lfs when talking to the server, and vice
> > versa.
> 
> True.  Better to say, Unix and Windows require LFs (since those CVS
> clients are assuming the files they get have LFs in them).  On the Mac it
> wouldn't be necessary.

I thought the Win CVS client converts from/to CRLFs.

> Avi

regards, Göran




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