Carsten Schlote wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I started working with subversion some time ago. I installed the native
> win32 subversion and explorer shell extention.
>
> Additionally I installed the subversion cgywin package, because I use
cygwin
> as my primary shell on windows. I also use GNU make and other tools.
Which package? There is no official Cygwin package yet.
> I encountered some problems, if you configure cygwin to automatically use
> CRLF expansion (DOS mode). It seems to corrupt files in .svn and probaly
> files marked as binary (Base checksum mismatch on... problem).
>
> I changed the cygwin setup to use UNIX mode for cygwin. I'm not completely
> through with my tests, but this might fix some of the problems.
Should do, I've been using built-from-source subversion on Cygwin for a
while. Binary/UNIX mode and no problems.
> I'm really interested to use subversion within the cygwin environment, I'd
> like to know who is the current cygwin package maintainer.
There is no current cygwin package maintainer, because there is no current
Cygwin package. In any case, Cygwin policy is that packaging problems should
be addressed on the cygwin-apps mailing list, *not* direct to the individual
package maintainer.
> So I might help
> with adapting subversion to work in bothe mode, DOS and UNIX.
>
> I really want to avoid the windows path conversion games within my make
> scripts.
Max.
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Received on Fri Apr 30 15:23:20 2004