Re: dos2unix file endings

Larry Jones <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Spiro Trikaliotis writes:
> 
> (Note: IIRC, the Cygwin CVS client will check out with Unix line endings
> if Cygwin is set to Unix line endings. You might want to use that)

Only if you never ever use any regular Windows tools, too.  Otherwise,
you're almost certain to end up with a mish mash of line endings, some
DOS and some Unix, even within the same file, that is nearly impossible
to straighten out.
-- 
Larry Jones

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