Hello cvs up -A did the job. Many thanks for the help.
Regards Ed On Tuesday 12 April 2005 06:51 pm, Larry Jones wrote: > Eduardo Mendes writes: > > cvs add zzz.pdf xxx.doc yyy.xls > > cvs ci -m "Adding doc and xls files" > > cvs admin -kb zzz.pdf xxx.doc yyy.xls > > > > No problem so far, but when I try to cvs ci -m "Updating a file", cvs > > returns: > > > > cvs commit: Examining . > > cvs commit: Up-to-date check failed for `zzz.pdf' > > cvs commit: Up-to-date check failed for `yyy.xls' > > cvs commit: Up-to-date check failed for `xxx.doc' > > cvs [commit aborted]: correct above errors first! > > > > What did I do wrong? > > You should have added the files in binary mode rather than adding them > in text mode and then changing them to binary: > > cvs add -kb zzz.pdf xxx.doc yyy.xls > > If you're working on a platform that doesn't distinguish between text > and binary files, all you need to do is update your working directory > appropriately: > > cvs up -A > > If you're working on a platform that does distinguish between text and > binary files, you'll still need to do that, but it will probably corrupt > the files in your working directory so afterwards you'll need to replace > them with fresh copies and commit them to get them stored correctly in > the repository. > > -Larry Jones > > Mr. Subtlety drives home another point. -- Calvin _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list Info-cvs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
