Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 11:10:43 +1030 From: "Vandertouw, Justin (DEH)" <Vandertouw.Justin@saugov.sa.gov.au> To: "'freebsd-cvsweb@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-cvsweb@freebsd.org> Subject: Option to ignore Windows linefeeds when diff-ing Message-ID: <7108E4F65252BD42BA13488051EBE3022A15F5@sagemsg0010.sagemsmrd01.sa.gov.au>
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hi folks, We have a problem whereby some developers checkin files (via commandline on Unix/CVS host) that may have been edited on Windows PCs. I have been asked to develop a soultion which will ulitmately enable reliable and useful diffs obvious solution was for developers to 'dos2unix' the source files but this is not reliable (because our developers are not) second was to modify the cvs checkin routines to check the fie and dos2unix but this is a maintenance headache and not 100% reliable then i thought maybe we could let the user tell cvsweb diff to ignore the end-of-line (^M) that Windows inserts. is this a reasonable option and has this been considered? cheers, justin vanderTouw
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