To CVS maintainers The current lore for CVS seems to be that CVS presumes all files to be text unless explicitly stated otherwise in CVSROOT/cvswrappers.
However, accidentally storing a binary file in CVS as text will corrupt that file and cause great annoyance to the user. This is a common bugbear with CVS. Better to reverse the sitution and have CVS presume all files are binary unless explicitly listed as text in cvswrappers. This makes CVS safe for all file types. No change is required to the CVS source code to do this, it simply needs the cvswrappers file to be correctly configured. I have already done this, and would like to contribute it to the CVS effort. Please find my cvswrapper file attached. I hope others would find it useful if you could include my cvswrappers file in the standard CVS distribution. Perhaps the manual could be updated to address this issue too as it gives the impression that the text-as-default model is the only way. Hope it helps Stewart Heitmann Software Engineer Lake Technology http:\\www.lake.com.au mob 0404 074 558 tel +61 2 9213 9050 fax +61 2 9211 0790
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