From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: nt/INSTALL and -kb
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 14:50:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jewtp7bqf0.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u64wub5fq.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 04 Jun 2005 16:46:33 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> The instructions in nt/INSTALL say:
>
> If you are building out of CVS, then some files in this directory
> (.bat files, nmake.defs and makefile.w32-in) may need the line-ends
> fixing first. The easiest way to do this and avoid future conflicts
> is to run the following command in this (emacs/nt) directory:
> cvs update -kb
>
> However, AFAIK the -kb option is sticky: it gets written into the
> file's entry in CVS/Entries, and thereafter all future CVS ops for
> that file use it.
This is true, but this is a local-only setting. If you want to make it
permanent in the repository you need to use `cvs admin -kb'. Neither `cvs
update' nor `cvs checkout' changes the repository.
> Doesn't that mean that "cvs ci" will also commit the new version as a
> binary file, will all the consequences of that, like that "cvs diff"
> will be impossible etc.?
No. Only changing the setting in the repository as above will have an
effect like this.
Andreas.
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2005-06-04 13:46 nt/INSTALL and -kb Eli Zaretskii
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