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Date:      Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:03:05 +1030
From:      "Vandertouw, Justin (DEH)" <Vandertouw.Justin@saugov.sa.gov.au>
To:        "'freebsd-cvsweb@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-cvsweb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Option to ignore Windows linefeeds when diff-ing
Message-ID:  <7108E4F65252BD42BA13488051EBE3022A1612@sagemsg0010.sagemsmrd01.sa.gov.au>

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On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 21:29:19 +0200 VilleSkytt?<scop@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 02:40, Vandertouw, Justin (DEH) wrote:

>> then i thought maybe we could let the user tell cvsweb diff to ignore the
>> end-of-line (^M) that Windows inserts.

>Maybe adding some switches to diff(1) in cvsweb.cgi's %DIFFTYPES helps,
>for example (some of) -w -b -B?

good idea1 i've implemented this - the users have since indicated that they
also 
want merge to ignore ^Ms so i think the problem need sto be fixed at its
source
ie, remove the ^Ms automagically (and appropriately) at check-in time, so i
have 
a little job to research ;)



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