[LLVMdev] Small patch for visual studio project files

[Jeff Cohen]

No, projects files are text files and should be treated as text files.
This is a non-problem when the correct version of CVS is used.  The
moral here is never use a binary that relies on Unix emulation when
there's a native Windows version available.  


On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 07:46:57 -0800
Reid Spencer <reid at x10sys.com> wrote:

> We could also do the "cvs admin -kb" thing on all the project files so
> that cvs won't do keyword expansion or line ending conversion.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Reid.
> 
> On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 07:36, Jeff Cohen wrote:
> > 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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