Bash 3.1.17(8) CR/LF problem

[mwoehlke]

Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, mwoehlke wrote:
> 
>> Dave Korn wrote:
>>> On 27 September 2006 20:42, Malcolm Nixon wrote:
>>>>     * Some detect the change to <LF> as changes require manual merging.
>>>   What, on lines that you /haven't/ edited locally?  That's just a bug.
>> I assume he meant 'if you d2u them'.
>>
>>>>     * Some translate files to a "Local" format (CR/LF on Windows).
>>>   FCOL, what on earth does an rcs think it's playing at, tampering
>>> with your data?  Any rcs that doesn't give you back exactly what you
>>> put into it is just plain buggy.  Nobody asked for a "automatically
>>> mangle my data whether I want you to or not" feature.
>> Anyone that has ever had both UNIX and Windows developers working on a
>> source tree has had a use for such a feature. Some Windows editors
>> (notepad) don't play nice with UNIX line endings, and some UNIX editors
>> don't play nice with Windows line endings (more often, mixed endings
>> cause problems). Oh, and then there are Mac line endings, too.
>>
>> It's useful to have the rcs give you text files with native line
>> endings. The rcm might then expects the file to stay this way (see
>> previous bullet), and will translate it back for storage in the repo.
>> Although you're right that this should never be behavior you can't turn
>> off.
>>
>> OTOH, we all know what the problem is; Microsoft's idiotic decisions to
>> Be Different. Thanks to that we have abominations like "ftp 'text'
>> mode". :-)
>>
>>>> I think the bigger issue here is that this arbitrary change will break
>>>> a "significant" number of existing scripts.
>>>   YM a "significant" number of /broken/ scripts.  Try running any of
>>> them on a linux box and see what you get.
>> Or perfectly valid scripts managed by an unfortunate rcs that insists on
>> u2d'ing them on the way down.
> 
> This is all academic, as hosting the repository on a textmode mount will
> solve his problem...

That assumes his repo is on a Windows machine... I don't think that was 
specified. Plus, wouldn't that assume that the rcsd is a Cygwin app?

Or did you mean run the scripts from a textmode mount?

-- 
Matthew
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