[Distutils] Re: [Python-Dev] DOS text files and CVS

Greg Ward asks:

can anyone enlighten me on the right way to check in DOS text files to a CVS repository? I have Thomas Heller's C source for his simple graphical installer for Python modules, and it should definitely be in the Distutils CVS tree. But I don't want to check it in if it'll screw up line-endings for anyone. Is there a Right Way to do this?

Well, if you checked it in from a Windows box, CVS would translate line endings to native, then a Windows checkout would translate back to Windows endings. So assuming you don't want to get your fingers dirty, give it *n*x line endings and check it in. CVS does understand text, you know :-). (And about the only Windows editor that barfs on *n*x line endings is Notepad.) - Gordon