[ale] Q: Spiffy GUI 'diff' sought

[Charles Shapiro]

Ah, cvs and Lose.  We had a trauma here when a Lose interface (wincvs?)
somehow managed to rewrite some of the files in CVS to have MS-DOS CRLF
line terminators. The result was cvs suddenly losing access to some
directories 'cause it thought it should be talking to 
:pserver:cshapiro at lala.numethods.com:/home/cvs<CR>  'stead of the real
location. Once we figured out the problem, a script applied through
find(1) fixed it. Beware of this when you're working from both Lose and
Linux. It had us flummoxed for several days.I did the Right Thing and
contributed this to the faq-o-matic at cvshome.org:
 http://ccvs.cvshome.org/fom//cache/20.html 


-- CHS

On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 16:38, John Mills wrote:
> Danny and Dow -
>
> Thanks for the pointers to xxdiff and mgdiff. I ran a search on 'tkdiff'
> and tried it (a 'diff' front-end, as you might expect). It does what I
> need and I can plug in into M$Doze to give folks the same tools in Linux
> and M$. I looked at Cervisia's 'diff' and it is also fine for my needs.
> 
> Now I need to clean up my CVS setup so that VC++ doesn't get linefeed-only
> terminators and I should be about home. Any thoughts on serving the same
> sources to M$ VC++ and Unices through CVS would be welcome.
> 
> On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Dow Hurst wrote:
> 
> > IIRC there is mgdiff under linux that is like gdiff under SGI.
> 
> Thanks again.
>  - John Mills
> 
> 
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