[Mono-list] A possible reason for getting newline problems

[Duncan Mak]

On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 18:32, Martin Baulig wrote:
> So you need to use the -kb flag on every checkout and update.
> 
> It's best to put something like this into your ~/.cvsrc:
> 
> ====
> cvs -z3
> update -d -P -kb
> checkout -kb
> diff -u
> ====
> 
> Of course you also need to use an editor which can handle Unix line
> endings - but the best editor is useless if the file is already
> converted on checkout ...
> 

Is this only applicable to people hacking on windows? All my edits are
done with emacs on linux, should I add this to my .cvsrc too?

thanks,

Duncan.