Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3500515B75D9D311948800508BA37955014BD9C8@EX-LONDON> From: Vince Hoffman To: "'Pietrobon Marcello'" , cygwin@sources.redhat.com Cc: nhv@cape.com, "'Fabrice Gautier'" Subject: RE: CVS and binary/text files. Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:39:21 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Umm not sure if a) anyones already answered this or b) it will suit your problem, but if you need to quickly change a directory between text or binary, mount it in the mode you need. eg. mkdir /mnt mount -t h:/documents /mnt for text mode. then to switch it. umount /mnt mount h:/documents /mnt (and just substitute your cvs root for h:/documents) > -----Original Message----- > From: Pietrobon Marcello [mailto:teiffel@attglobal.net] > Sent: 20 March 2003 19:28 > To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com > Cc: nhv@cape.com; 'Fabrice Gautier' > Subject: Re: CVS and binary/text files. > Importance: High > > > Hi, > I need to quickly switch between the two DOS and Unix modes > when using CVS > > Is there a way to do it ? > Without creating any problems somewhere else in the Cygwin OS ? > And without having to reinstall the cvs client, or worse all cygwin ? > > Thank you for any quick answer ! > > Marcello > > > > > > Norman Vine wrote: > > > Fabrice Gautier writes: > > > > > >I'm using the cvs client provided with cygwin to grab some > > >windows files. > > >Those file normally have DOS style end of lines (CRLF) but > when i get > > >them with cvs they have UNIX style end of lines. > > > > > >Is their some cvs options to get DOS end of lines? > > > > CVS will add DOS style line endings when files are CheckedOut > > onto a text mounted drive. It will use UNIX style line endings on > > binary mounted drives. > > > > Cheers > > > > Norman Vine > > > > -- > > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > > Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/