[Zope3-dev] DOS file endings not allowed in text files in CVS

[Jim Fulton]

Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
>>>>>>"JF" == Jim Fulton <jim@zope.com> writes:
>>>>>>
> 
>     >> Or: 4. Before checking in from Unix, normalize line endings.  I
>     >> use Tools/scripts/crlf.py from the Python distribution:
> 
>     JF> I don't think this approach is practical because people will
>     JF> invariably forget to do it. I speak from experience. I know of
>     JF> some folks who were going to run dos2unix before checking in
>     JF> and often forgot.
> 
> I wonder if you could twist commitinfo into either doing the filtering
> or at least barking loudly if it finds bad line endings.  One problem
> is that commitinfo runs on the remote repository.  I've never played
> with commitinfo though...

Ken and I discussed this. It felt too scary.

Jim


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