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List:       bitkeeper-users
Subject:    Re: [Bitkeeper-users] Bitkeeper corrupting Visual Studio 6 Project files
From:       Larry McVoy <lm () bitmover ! com>
Date:       2002-11-17 18:25:55
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> I discovered that Bitkeeper seems to have stripped the
> Windows style newlines (\r\n), because if I run a
> program that can convert files from Unix to DOS, the
> project files can be read again. If I try to recheck
> in the corrected files, Bitkeeper does not see any
> difference in the files so nothing happens.
> 
> (One extra piece of information that may or may not be
> important. Because my Windows box doesn't have the
> resources to install Cygwin to use Bitkeeper, my
> Windows machine is connected to a Linux machine via
> Samba. The Linux box is the machine with Bitkeeper
> installed and it is the Linux box that is responsible
> for hosting the files and doing the pulls, pushes,
> check-ins, etc. 

Well, that's the problem, when you check out on Unix you get Unix newline
termination, not Windows.  You have to check out the files on windows.
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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 
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