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Re: Binary files ends up as a text file during checkout


From: Tuan
Subject: Re: Binary files ends up as a text file during checkout
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 18:26:27 -0400
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Arthur Barrett wrote:
I had a CVS server on a Windows machine using CVSNT. I recently moved to Ubuntu and set it up as the CVS server.

You will need to use CVSNT on Ubuntu - CVSNT repositories are not
compatible with CVS 1.11/1.12.

The correct newsgroup for CVSNT is:
http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt
or
news://news.cvsnt.org/support.cvsnt


Can Ubuntu use the RH9 RPM's?  If so just download the RPM marked as for
RHEL4 - it's actually built on RH9.

Regards,


Arthur


I did some searching and found some people were using this command to change a file marked as text to binary in CVS:

cvs admin -kb [file name]
cvs update -A [file name]

Of course the commands above were used to fix the problem when users accidentally added a binary file as a text file while using the same repository and CVS server. My case is different, I moved my CVSNT repository to my Ubuntu Server running CVS 1.12.13 and all my binary files somehow ended up marked as text files after the first initial checkout.

I am sticking with the CVS server I currently have installed on Ubuntu (Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.12.13). Does anybody see any potential problems with using this method to fix my problem?

I know you mentioned that CVSNT repositories are not compatible with CVS 1.11/1.12. Can you elaborate on that? I was able to check out the my CVSNT repository once I moved it over to my CVS 1.12.13 Ubuntu Server without a problem except for the binary/text issue I mentioned. Is there anything else thats not compatible or will be an issue for me?


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