Re: Using win32 and unix questions

Matthew Dempsky wrote:

>On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 08:21 +0200, Ingo Buescher wrote:
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>>John A Meinel wrote:
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>>>In general, tla never changes your line endings for you. So if you check
>>>in a file with DOS (CRLF) endings, you get them back that way on all
>>>platforms.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>I'm not so sure that this is true - we had to explicitly change our line
>>encodings to unix style, because tla kept changing our src code to it
>>while checking it out (tla get). We recognized this, because when we
>>tried to check in a patch afterwards, the generated patches were huge
>>since every line was changed. We also checked the settings of our IDEs
>>(Eclipse and IntelliJ) - they were set to the windows encodings, so they
>>could'nt/shouldn't be responsible.
>>
>>
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>The only time tla ever touches your files directly is when it searches
>for inline tags (and that's read-only).  You've only got diff, patch,
>and your fake Unix environment to blame for mysteriously changing end
>lines.  (There was a patch for tla to work around this by passing the
>--binary option to diff and patch, but it seems it hasn't been included