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Reply-To: "Nuno Lopes" <nunoplopes AT sapo DOT pt>
From: "Nuno Lopes" <nunoplopes AT sapo DOT pt>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, "Jani Tiainen" <redetin AT luukku DOT com>
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Subject: Re: strange problems with cvs
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 18:59:36 -0000
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>> I use CVS with cygwin a long time ago, but after a recent updte it stoped
>> working. I'm using pserver auth and the cygwin is installed with *DOS*
>> line-endings.
>>
>> When I try to do something with cvs -1.11.17- (cvs up, cvs diff, etc..) 
>> it
>> simply returns:
>> ": no such repository"
>>
>> Normally if I close cygwin, run the setup again (without installing
>> anything) and opening cygwin again fixes the problem.
>>
>> If I do a fresh checkout, it will checkout the files with *unix* 
>> file-endings, which isn't what I asked for..
>>
>> Does anyone knows whats the problem here? I think it might be cause of 
>> the
>> release of the lastest dll version. (I update cygwin often..)
>
> Seems like you have encountered fancy EOL problem. To be safe use unix 
> line-endings since CVS is pretty picky about those.
>
> And of course if you want to use DOS type line endings, use real win32 
> version of CVS.

It had always worked, so there might be some change in the code that caused 
this...
Anyway, the files in the cvs server use the unix EOL, but on my pc they use 
the win EOL. But cvs used to handle this for me..


> I've encountered numerous problems with CVS due the line-endings... Any 
> decent text editor should be handle both CR+LF or LF/CR only line-endings 
> and preserving existing ones... If yours doesn't it's time to upgrade...

I have vim, but I still like to use notepad, which only works with \r\n...
Is there anything I can do to help solving this problem ASAP?


Thanks,
Nuno 


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