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Bug 52333

Summary:	files with unknown line endings are added binary per default to CVS
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Jörg Heinicke <joerg.heinicke>
Component:	CVS	Assignee:	platform-cvs-inbox <platform-cvs-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 2000
Whiteboard:

Description Jörg Heinicke

2004-02-17 21:04:24 EST

We (Apache Cocoon community) had some problems with line endings issues (Unix
vs. DOS). When searching for the reason I found out that some of our files were
added as binaries to the CVS. I tried it out explicitely today with one of our
most important files 'sitemap.xmap'.

I found two settings for binary (-kb) vs. ASCII (e.g. -kkv), both on Team > CVS
preferences main page:
- Treat all new files as binary (disabled).
- Default keyword substitution (ASCII with keyword expansion (-kkv)).
So I expect the file sitemap.xmap to be added as ASCII file. The file ending is
not added to Team > File Content.

Comment 1 Michael Valenta

2004-02-18 09:52:57 EST

The "Treat all new files as binary" option is there to support non ASCII based 
character sets. All files will be binary no matter what their file extension 
is if this option is enabled. What you asking for is an option like "treat 
unknown file types as text" since by default, unknown file types are treated 
as binary.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 15119 ***

Comment 2 Jörg Heinicke

2004-02-18 10:24:55 EST

Thanks for the hint. I already searched for bugs related to this but with words
"cvs" and "binary" - the other bug only mentions "bin" :)

Joerg