Re: [Springframework-developer] New Spring module

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Colin,

> 
> When I have seen this sort of thing happen before (and maybe what Rod 
> did), was when a file was checked out to a windows system, so that every 
> line has the CRLF at the end, but then mailed or transported to a Unix 
> system, and then checked in there as is. In this case, the unix client 
> doesn't know that it has to strip the CR at the end of each line on 
> checking, and the checkin ends up with CRLF in the reop itself. Then 
> when you do a subsequent checkout on the windows system, the client on 
> the system thinks (correctly) that it has to add a CR before every 
> incoming LF, and you end up with CRCRLF at the end of every line.
> 
> (Note btw, that it's not the actual CVS client that does the end of line 
> handling, it's really the stdio routines in the C library, which handle 
> this appropriately for the platform).
> 
> In any case, this is sort of a mess :-)
> 

Yes, and you are right about pretty much everything else in your post :-)

Windows -> Linux -> CVS import is not a good combo.

Should we try this again and do it right?  Rod or Juergen, can you remove
everything from the Spring folder so we can start with a fresh slate.

I'll use my windows system this time to get proper CR/LF conversion.

Thomas