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Re: [PATCH] Setup.exe "other URL" functionality
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- To: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- Cc: cygwin-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 09:39:50 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Setup.exe "other URL" functionality
- References: <NCBBIHCHBLCMLBLOBONKGEBKCIAA.g.r.vansickle@worldnet.att.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-patches at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
"Gary R. Van Sickle" wrote:
>
> > Thanks. BTW: If you can identify what made that huge patch (my money is
> > on indent 2.2.7 inserting ^M's)'s that would be handy.
> >
> > Rob
>
> It's highly bizarre, but AFAICT it's not indent but rather something wrong with
> "cvs diff". Here's my investigation so far, I'm on all text mounts:
>
That would be the problem. You need to switch to binary mounts or
modify the CVS code to do the right thing.
> So I guess I'm out of WAGes now, unless cvs is tracking the file-moving and
> claiming that a file with, say, the same contents but a different creation date
> or something is completely different, regardless of contents. But I don't think
> that would explain the initial problem because I never moved any files.
>
There's nothing to WAG, \n to \r\n conversion is happening because of
your text mounts and now CVS or rather `cvs diff' sees the differences.
Earnie.
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