Re: DVS and lfs

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Göran Hultgren wrote:

> Quoting Avi Bryant <avi@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 danielv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Avi, all.
> > >
> > > Well, filing out using DVS adds lf to my line endings.
> > >
> > > Avi, you said before that this comes from working with CVS, which
> > > requires it.
>
> CVS does not require lfs. It is up to the CVS client executable to convert the
> local line ending on the client OS to lfs when talking to the server, and vice
> versa.

True.  Better to say, Unix and Windows require LFs (since those CVS
clients are assuming the files they get have LFs in them).  On the Mac it
wouldn't be necessary.

Avi