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Re: DOS line endings

From: Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>
To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: Ranjit Mathew <rmathew at hotmail dot com>, tromey at redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, java at gcc dot gnu dot org, Hans dot Boehm at hp dot com
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 18:23:23 -0700
Subject: Re: DOS line endings

On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 10:31 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:

The short version is that
certain proprietary and far too clever for their own good version
control systems consider that a file that originally had Unix line
endings must have them forever and ever, world without end, amen, and
if you try to check in a new version of the file that's unchanged but
for acquiring DOS line endings, it will say "You didn't change
anything!  I refuse to check this in!"  This causes headaches for
automatic scripts attempting to track a CVS repository in this
system.

There is an option to force it, use that option.

References:
- Re: DOS line endings
  - From: Zack Weinberg

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