Hello Christian, * On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:38:19PM +0200 Christian Hujer wrote:
> Currently, CVS has extremely tolerant behaviour regarding binary files which > were accidently added as text files. As long as they do not contain keywords > (like $Id...$), they are extremely likely to still be handled conveniently. This is true for Unix based systems, but not for systems where CR/LF is the usual line ending. Checking in a binary file from a Windows system, you have very good chances to break it if there is a CR/LF anywhere inside of it. For non-CR/LF machines, checking in binary files without -kb does not do any harm even if there are keywords ($Id$, for example) inside of it. CVS checks them in "as-is" and only expands the keywords on checkout. Thus, if you forgot doing the -kb on checkin, just set the state afterwards with cvs admin and check the file out again. As told, this is NOT true for CR/LF based systems. Regards, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://cbm4win.sf.net/ http://www.trikaliotis.net/ http://www.viceteam.org/ _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
