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Re: CVS on Windows OS, under Cygwin: incompatibility with textmode
- From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: "Agosta, John M" <john dot m dot agosta at intel dot com>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: <Google at agosta dot org>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 14:05:55 -0500
- Subject: Re: CVS on Windows OS, under Cygwin: incompatibility with textmode
- References: <B8E391BBE9FE384DAA4C5C003888BE6F0EECC1@scsmsx401.sc.intel.com>
- Reply-to: Cygwin List <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
At 09:43 PM 1/9/2004, Agosta, John M you wrote:
>(w/ cross posting to gnu.cvs.help)
>
>
>I set up the CVS (1.11.6-3) port to Windows that comes in Cygwin.
>Everything worked fine, except checking out files with CVS was adding
>extra lines to files -- under some circumstances---checked-out files had
>the Windows \r\n line termination changed to \r\r\n.
>
>It appears to be an interaction between Cygwin and CVS. Using a Cygwin
>port of a Unix shell appears to be necessary to running a command-line
>CVS client from Windows---using the windows cmd prompt to run CVS gave
>me errors. The configuration is simple. The archive is a remote file
>system mounted on the client windows machine. All commands are run on
>the client with CVSROOT pointing to the archive directory on the remote.
>
>
>Here were the clues: The problem only appeared on one of two apparently
>identical client machines. The archive files themselves were not
>corrupted. All profile, install scripts, environment variables were
>identical on both machines, but the mount command showed that the
>mis-functioning machine mounted its directories in textmode, and the
>functioning machine in binmode. Since there is no equivalent fstab file
>in Cygwin, this configuration is read from in the Windows registry at
>boot time. (See http://cygwin.com/cygwin-up-net/using.html#MOUNT-TABLE.)
>The registry configuration is the first step in the Cygwin
>setup.exe---It can be modified by re-running setup and choosing default
>text file type == UNIX (without re-installing any files).
>
>Users who choose this setting will have to accept not being able to open
>files saved by Cygwin commands (e.g. cat) in Windows notepad.
>Fortunately most Windows applications (MS Word, VS6) have no problem
>interpreting line breaks in unix style text files.
>
>I suppose that CVS is conservative when it archives files, and does not
>"unixify" them, but interacts with Cygwin to modify them on checkout.
>Is is possible to configure cvs to treat import and checkout
>consistently when Cygwin mounts directories in textmode?
IIRC, no. There's history on this in the Cygwin email archives, if you're
interested. It's a PTC <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC> situation for the
CVS code.
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