RE: [XBoard-devel] CVS Questions

[Dan Jenkins]

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 <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> 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
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> XBoard-devel mailing list
> address@hidden
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/xboard-devel