Re: [COMMIT] Accept "\r\n" line-endings on all hosts

Eli Zaretskii
2004-10-15T12:43:42Z

> Cc: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>, cagney@gnu.org,
> gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 01:00:05 +0200
>
> >> Yup should be doable. No uuencoding necessary I think. Unless CVS
> >> silently changes \r\n into \n.
> >
> > Some Windows CVS clients do that.
>
> Unless you mark the file as binary (-kb).

And lose important features like diffs, per-line annotations, etc.
No, thanks.

People who port CVS clients to Windows should really do a better job.
Until they do, DJGPP's dtou.exe and utod.exe rule!