Re: [Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/nt/INSTALL

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:52:06 +0200
> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On 6/12/05, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > Anyway, I'm still confused.  Assuming that I checkout a file with -kb,
> > and that file is not recorded as binary in the repository, would
> > commands such as "cvs diff", "cvs annotate", etc. work exactly as when
> > no -kb was ever used on that file?
> 
> cvs diff, annotate, etc. do work as if the files weren't checked out with -kb.

Thanks for the footwork.  I've now removed the warning from
nt/INSTALL.

> > Finally, if "co -kb" indeed has only a local effect, and none of the
> > other commands, like ci, diff, up -j, etc. are affected, it sounds
> > like Windows users should be told to checkout the whole tree with -kb,
> > right?
> 
> Not sure if they should be told to, but at least there is no problem
> if they do: I just checked out a -kb tree and built it with MSVC with
> no problem whatsoever.

I did that as well (but with MinGW).  I will run with this setup for a
while and see if I encounter any problems.