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Re: Diff treats files as text after they have been flagged -kb
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luke . kendall |
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Re: Diff treats files as text after they have been flagged -kb |
Date: |
Mon, 8 Sep 2003 12:53:29 +1000 (EST) |
On 5 Sep, Jack Dodds wrote:
> However this leaves the original .WPJ and .TGT "text" files. I
> used cvs admin to attach the -kb flag to all the .WPJ and .TGT
> files both in the repository and the sandbox, expecting this
> to fix the problem. (This lead to some CR/LF problems when
> old versions of the .WPJ and .TGT files were checked out, but
> I was able to write a utility to fix that.)
>
> In spite of flagging all the old .WPJ and .TGT files -kb, diff
> still compares the files as if they were text files.
>
> Any suggestions as to how to fix this? I could of course
> export the whole project and import it into a completely
> new repository, but I would lose the history in the present
> repository.
I thought the admin -kb only affected the repository, *not* your
checkout. If so it would explain your observation.
What happens in a fresh checkout? My theory is that the files will be
properly seen as binary files in that case: an easy test.
luke