[LLVMdev] Small patch for visual studio project files

[Jeff Cohen]

You have to use a version of CVS that's specifically built for Windows. 
You can find prebuilt Windows binaries at cvshome.org.  The cygwin
supplied CVS no doubt thinks it's running on Unix, so naturally it won't
convert line endings.


On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 16:23:30 +0100
Morten Ofstad <morten at hue.no> wrote:

> Jeff Cohen wrote:
> 
> > Are you sure your CVS is configured correctly?  On Windows, CVS
> > automatically converts between LF and CR/LF line endings.  I sent a
> > patch to remove all CRs from the repository because when I checked out
> > the files on Windows, every line had two CRs and a single LF.  When VS
> > saved a modified project file, the extra CR went away, causing every
> > line to diff.
> 
> I'm using the cygwin cvs which doesn't add any CR when checking out.. so 
> I'm getting the version with only LF and when VS saves a modified 
> project file every line diffs... I don't see any option to cvs to tell 
> it how to handle line endings, so I don't know how to fix this.
> 
> m.
> 
> 
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