[Zope-Coders] Re: [Zope3-dev] Denying commit for carriage returns in text

[Jim Fulton]

Lennart Regebro wrote:
> From: "Jim Fulton" <jim@zope.com>
> 
>>Cool. Thanks. What do people think about puting this in place?
>>
> 
> I'm fine with it. Just a bit surprised that it's needed. Isn't cvs supposed
> to take care of that? The whole point of telling cvs isn't a binary file is
> to stop it making these conversions, right?

This thread started on Zope 3, where I explained this. :)

In short, some people check out on Linux, edit on windows
and check in on unix.  The unix cvs client doesn't expect or adjust
dos line endings.

Jim

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