RE: [Mingw-users] cvs in MSYS

[Wu Y. <ad...@ne...>]

 > > > What is the preferred/recommended way to do cvs
 > > > from Windows/MSYS? I tried wincvs but it mangled
 > > > the gzip compressed files
 > >
 > > Mark binary files as binary (-kb), and CVS won't treat
 > > them as text. Note that this is also a very good idea
 > > if you are only using your CVS repository with Unix
 > > clients, to avoid expansion of RCS keywords.
 >
 > Ok, thanks I'll let the person who created the CVS
 > repository know that the binary files aren't marked
 > as such.

Yes, you need to do it. Binary files (in your case, gzip compressed 
files) should of course be stored with the -kb flag.

 > > > and added CR to each line of the text files.
 > >
 > > As it should, as a good Windows program.
 >
 > Is that your definition of a "good windows program"?
 > It seems to me that if I am downloading unix source
 > files from a unix CVS repository, it should come
 > out in unix text format whether I am working from
 > within Windows or not. If I wanted to convert the
 > files to Windows format I would do that as a second
 > step or as a special option of the checkout.

CVS clients don't care about what kind of source you are having. The 
same source will be LF-terminated when checked out on a Unix machine and 
be CRLF-terminated when on a Windows machine. It will be stored the same 
way (canonicalized) on the CVS server when you check in (commit) the code.

 > > > I could not find any option in wincvs to prevent
 > > > this. Am I missing something? Is there a command
 > > > line version that works from MSYS?
 > >
 > > You already have a command line cvs.exe in the WinCVS
 > > distribution.
 >
 > Wouldn't it also mangle the unix files?

I wouldn't call it "mangling". However, in case you really need the LF 
ending, or to remedy the careless adminitrator's storing binary files as 
text, the cvs.exe in WinCVS provided two options:

   --crlf       Use the Dos line feed for text files (default).
   --lf         Use the Unix line feed for text files.

It is said some environment variables would work too, but I am not sure 
about it. The above information could be got by simply typing
"cvs --help-options". Not every Windows cvs.exe supports it, but the 
version with WinCVS really does and can be verified by the above command.

Best regards,

Wu Yongwei