"""I presume you have customers mount a checkout remotely and edit through the filesystem? If this works for you, perhaps we can document this pattern somewhere as it may mitigate some of the issues. """
Yes, I've done this in the past. Unfortunately due to linefeed differences between UNIX and DOS, it can happen that files added to the samba mount by a remote Windows machine can have the wrong line endings if the users don't configure their tools to use UNIX line endings, which confuses the heck out of (at least) CVS. So I usually just run those files through dos2unix before checking them in. It's a real pain. It might be a good idea to have a commit hook that does this.
I haven't had much luck in providing CVS frontends *over* samba for the same sorts of reasons. But a few Windows customers I've been able to persuade to move to MacOS, and that makes life oh so much easier because they can actually run the appserver, edit files, and use CVL on their local machine without much drama.
Yes, I've done this in the past. Unfortunately due to linefeed differences between UNIX and DOS, it can happen that files added to the samba mount by a remote Windows machine can have the wrong line endings if the users don't configure their tools to use UNIX line endings, which confuses the heck out of (at least) CVS. So I usually just run those files through dos2unix before checking them in. It's a real pain. It might be a good idea to have a commit hook that does this.
I haven't had much luck in providing CVS frontends *over* samba for the same sorts of reasons. But a few Windows customers I've been able to persuade to move to MacOS, and that makes life oh so much easier because they can actually run the appserver, edit files, and use CVL on their local machine without much drama.