June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
9h 49m
English
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Windows Clients
There are two graphical CVS clients available specifically for Windows. One is WinCVS, which is described in Section A.1 of this chapter. The other is TortoiseCVS, which modifies the way Windows Explorer presents files.
Following are some issues you might encounter when using CVS from Windows. These issues apply equally to WinCVS and TortoiseCVS.
- Line endings differ between Windows and Unix
CVS automatically attempts to convert the line endings of text files to Unix format. This is helpful in text files, but it causes problems in binary files that are committed accidentally as text files. When a binary file is corrupted because CVS tried to “fix” the line endings, often you can recover with the following procedure:
Back up the current sandbox copy of the file.
Update the file with
cvs updateto bring the repository version into the sandbox and reconvert the line endings.Check the file to ensure that it is no longer corrupt. If it is still corrupt, roll back to the most recent uncorrupted version (hopefully, the backup).
Use
cvs admin -kb filenameto convert the default keyword-expansion mode of the file to binary.Recommit the file to the repository with
cvs commit -f.
- SSH may attempt to convert line endings
Because CVS performs its own line-ending conversion, you cannot use an SSH client that converts line endings as the client for CVS.
- Filename capitalization matters under Unix
In Unix operating systems, file capitalization matters.
NoSuchFileandnosuchfileare ...
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