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RE: CVS + SSH + Binary File = ^M
- From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <garbage_collector at telia dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 22:37:57 +0200
- Subject: RE: CVS + SSH + Binary File = ^M
> From: Dave Korn
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 5:29 PM
Commenting a message from kgrizzle
> > Sent: 19 April 2004 16:15
> Basically I think it's a bad idea to mount your filesystems in textmode
> and then complain "But it keeps adding \r to my line endings".
> Accessing a binary file through a textmode mountpoint is a dubious
> thing to expect to work. I personally think the most reliable strategy
> is to accept that we're working with a POSIX system, standardize on
> Unix EOLs throughout your files, mount your filesystems in binary mode,
> and only ever have Unix<=>DOS EOL conversions by deliberately invoking
> d2u/u2d manually.
I can only agree with the above; I've been using this strategy for a couple
of decades - yet to be bitten hard.
My situation for a long time:
AmigaOS (LF line endings)
<= versus =>
MS DOS and whatever came after it (The well known CRLF line endings)
/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E
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