Re: [boost] About line endings and CVS

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-11 03:55:07

William E. Kempf wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daryle Walker" <darylew_at_[hidden]>
> > 1.  Make sure that the header is stored in CVS in text mode.  CVS takes
> > extra precautions on text-file handling.  I think only the CVS gods (at
> > SourceForge) can fix a file accidentally put in binary mode.
>
> Because of my experience with Eclipse (a Java IDE) I believe that it's
> possible for the client to change from binary to text mode.  However, since
> the IDE does it for you, I have no idea what the command(s) would be to do
> so.

According to the CVS book 
http://www.red-bean.com/cvsbook/cvsbook.html#CVS_is_not_doing_line-end_conversion_correctly
you'd need to use

    cvs admin -kkv FILE 

to restore the file back to default mode (line ending conversion and keyword 
expansion on). I also belive this command can be run by anybody.

I'd highly recommend CVS book for answering all CVS-related questions.

- Volodya