Re: CVS Questions

I think my understanding of the cvswrappers file was a little flawed 
too, I don't think it does anything for checkout, only add and 
import...sigh. Amazing how things make more sense only *after* you've 
asked the dumb questions :)

Mark

Dan Jenkins wrote:

> I'm by no means a CVS expert, but for the CVS repository I use to store 
> all my personal projects, I usually add in binary files by using the -kb 
> option when initially adding them.  If you accidentally add a binary 
> file without that option, you can use the admin command with -kb to 
> change it.
> 
> I don't think that you want to have everything checked in as binaries, 
> because from what I understand, binary files aren't kept as diffs, which 
> makes going back to prior versions either impossible, or less efficent.  
> I don't remember which for sure.
> 
> 
>> From: Mark Ioli <chessknight <at> comcast.net>
>> To: xboard-devel <at> gnu.org
>> Subject: [XBoard-devel] CVS Questions
>> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 16:17:21 -0700
>>
>> Ok, questions about our CVS repository...
>>
>> Are the files currently tagged with any particular keyword 
>> substitution? I thought I checked correctly and they all seemed to be 
>> tagged as binary (-kb). But when I check anything out it all comes 
>> across as ascii. This has been corrupting the binaries (like the 
>> bitmaps for winboard), causing the resource compiler to fail. Now 
>> experimenting with Eclipse, which has nice CVS integration, I hadn't 
>> been able to figure out why everything was seen as ascii. In the 
>> process I somewhat unintentially changed the substitution mode for one 
>> bitmap in the winboard directory. How do you or how should we be 
>> checking things out, forcing binary mode? If nothing is currently 
>> tagged for any particular mode, should we? Or should it all be 
>> controlled at the client end, using a cvswrappers file?
>>
>> Sorry for my confusion, if I'm just missing something very fundamental 
>> about CVS I apologize.
>>
>>
>> Mark
>>
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