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Malcolm Nixon wrote:
> Jonathan Arnold wrote:
>>>      * Some translate files to a "Local" format (CR/LF on Windows).
>> Perforce will do this if you let it.  Or you can set the LineEnd option
>> for the client to be Unix or Share.
> 
> This was in fact my original patch attempt, however it had the following
> problems:
>   * You can only set this option for an entire ClientSpec, not
> individual files.
>   * Some editors (Notepad & Crimson Editor) don't support just LF.
>   * Perforce messes up files on check-in. We haven't tracked down the exact
>     cause yet, but some files modified on systems with LineEnd=unix are
>     being fetched with only LF on systems with LineEnd=local.
> 
> Basically we can't 'infect' a mostly Windows source-tree with LF
> terminated files, whether the LFs are only resident on peoples local
> Windows boxes, or checked in to the Perforce repository.

You can change the Perforce filetype to be binary, and that way Perforce
will leave the cr/lf alone. Then check out the scripts, do a d2u on them,
and check them back in.

$ p4 edit -t binary myscript.sh

-- 
Jonathan Arnold                       http://www.buddydog.org

When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.


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