[Mono-list] newline and cvs

[Daniel Stodden]

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On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 12:45, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> On 03-Mar-2002, Paolo Molaro <lupus@ximian.com> wrote:
> > However, existing files should *not* be changed to match the convention
> > used by the last programmer that committed to the file!
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> I agree, but...
>=20
> > This makes the
> > cvs history useless and reviewing patches almost impossible.

yes. but fixing them once (and forever) in a single commit
should be painless.

> ... not completely useless.  You can still get useful results from cvs if=
 you
> use the `-b' (`--ignore-space-change') option to diff, e.g. `cvs diff -b'=
.

i'd rather suggest enforcing server-side recoding on commit:
see the texinfo: cvs/administrative files/commitinfo

this leaves the question what the _preferred_ line delimiter is:
unix lf, of course? well, most unix editors i know do a significantly
better job with crlf than the windows stuff with lf, so i'm not sure.

are really that may people running NT as their preferred development
environment for mono? ugh.

regards,
dns

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