new member Problem with huge files/folders in CVS

2004-06-29 Thread ahalya.kumari
Hi, It seems CVS uses the /tmp folder to store the uploaded files intermediately. When I tried to do Import of a huge folder the size of my / partition got filled and no one else in my group could continue using CVS till I removed the CVS information in the /tmp/cvs-serv folders. Is there

new member problem with login after updating to WinCvs 1.3

2004-06-29 Thread Lina Krantz
I tried to update my WinCvs 1.2 to 1.3 and all settings looks the same, but I get the message below. Someone recognize it? Thanks in advance , Lina The errormessage: Unable to initialize the CVS process: The system cannot find the path specified. The CVS used is : C:\Program Files\GNU\WinCvs

Re: Smoke, FUD (was Re: CVS corrupts binary files ...)

2004-06-29 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark, I agree with your response to Greg's claims about RCS compatibility, or the lack thereof. In particular, I am not aware of any fundamental problems rcs 5.7 will have if someone were to introduce a new keyword which would name a program other than

Re: Smoke, FUD (was Re: CVS corrupts binary files ...)

2004-06-29 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ On Monday, June 28, 2004 at 01:44:36 (-0700), Mark D. Baushke wrote: ] Subject: Re: Smoke, FUD (was Re: CVS corrupts binary files ...) The RCS format is very extensible and in fact the CVSNT folks have extended it already and I have had no problems

Filename case-sensitivity

2004-06-29 Thread Brendan Knowlton
Hi // I'm looking for some guidance on case-sensitivity with CVS. I have a file, call it Filename.java, which should be renamed to filename.java in order to fit a naming convention and not break some other code. The Filename.java version is checked into cvs. I cannot find any way to get the

Re: Smoke, FUD (was Re: CVS corrupts binary files ...)

2004-06-29 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Sander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rather than use a hint to expose an implementation detail, I suggest recording a data type instead. Maybe even a MIME type. Then provide a suitable mechanism to

Re: new member Problem with huge files/folders in CVS

2004-06-29 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems CVS uses the /tmp folder to store the uploaded files intermediately. When I tried to do Import of a huge folder the size of my / partition got filled and no one else in my group could continue using CVS till I

Re: new member Problem with huge files/folders in CVS

2004-06-29 Thread Mark D. Baushke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the reply. As I am not much aware of the Linux system setup, could you please help with more details? I was suggesting building the cvs executable from sources. Your message gave no details of your setup, so I

Re: Filename case-sensitivity

2004-06-29 Thread Spiro Trikaliotis
Hello, * On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:27:43AM +0100 Brendan Knowlton wrote: Is there anything I can do in the repository itself (running on a HP/UX server) to change the name of this file directly? Or some clever Entries or repository hacking that would do the trick? Yes, rename the file into

RE: new member Problem with huge files/folders in CVS

2004-06-29 Thread ahalya.kumari
Hi, Thanks for the reply. As I am not much aware of the Linux system setup, could you please help with more details? I am not able to use ./configure. I am also not able find any similar config file in xinetd.d folder too. Where can I make the tmp-dir change? Rgds, Ahalya -Original

RE: File date and timestamp

2004-06-29 Thread Flagg, David
Thanks for the info. The reason the timestamp is important is because the file is part of an external delivery. the customer has previous deliveries and flags files whose timestamps have changed. As a result, they wonder why the timestamp changed on this binary file, yet we didn't inform them

RE: File date and timestamp

2004-06-29 Thread Jim.Hyslop
Flagg, David wrote: The reason the timestamp is important is because the file is part of an external delivery. the customer has previous deliveries and flags files whose timestamps have changed. As a result, they wonder why the timestamp changed on this binary file, yet we didn't inform

Re: new member Problem with huge files/folders in CVS

2004-06-29 Thread Larry Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to have CVS use any other folder for the above? https://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.16/cvs_2.html#SEC37 -Larry Jones Physical education is what you learn from having your face in someone's armpit right before lunch. -- Calvin

RE: new member Problem with huge files/folders in CVS

2004-06-29 Thread AdabalaP
Global options == The available `cvs_options' (that are given to the left of `cvs_command') are: ... `-T TEMPDIR' Use TEMPDIR as the directory where temporary files are located. Overrides the setting of the `$TMPDIR' environment variable and any precompiled

listing new files in a local directory

2004-06-29 Thread John Hanny
Hey, I'd like a cvs command that tells me what files in the current directory are new. One hack that I've been using is cvs update. The files that are prefixed by '?' are new. Unfortunately, this has the side-effect of updating my local directory files if they have been changed in the repository.

Updating Locally Modified

2004-06-29 Thread Prashant
Hi, this is my problem. I have a file that is locally modified (i.e. newer than the version in the repository), but what I want to do update my working version from the repository version (i.e. merge the changes i've made). CVS won't let me do this because it doesn't merge locally modified

Diff question

2004-06-29 Thread Emmanuel STAPF [ES]
How can I perform a diff between 2 dates in a given branch? I was hoping something like Branch:Date would work the same way it does for the `cvs up -j' option, but it is not recognized? Anything I'm missing? Manu PS: I'm using the client cvs 1.10.5

server cvs on windowsXP

2004-06-29 Thread visert
Hi, I need to set up a little cvs on 3 pc with WindowsXP connected to a local intranet. I use WinCVS as client and cvsnt as server but I'm not able to give an user access to client. Is ntserver protocol WindowsXp enabled? What is the way to give user and password to client to complete the CVSROOT

Import problem

2004-06-29 Thread Peg
I'm new to cvs. I've created a repository: cvs -d /export/home/alexCVS init Then I import the files in /export/home/alexHome/project: cd /export/home/alexHome/project cvs import -m message project dummy start This seems to work and reports no errors. However when I cd /export/home/alexHome

pserver: no such repository

2004-06-29 Thread Andreas Forster
Hello, when I want to access my cvs repository via pserver, i get the error /var/lib/cvs: no such repository. I tried this from two different machines (one of them was the machine with the repository on its harddisc), so its not a networking problem. I can access the repository locally with

cvs [commit aborted]: invalid change text

2004-06-29 Thread Andy Stringer
I am getting an error trying to update a unicode file. Here is what I am seeing: cvs commit -m no message dbo.CitNewsSelect.PRC (in directory S:\CityOfSammamish\bin\sql\) Removing dbo.CitNewsSelect.PRC; cvs commit: Dropping data: posvec-nlines cvs [commit aborted]: invalid change text in

Re: cvs [commit aborted]: invalid change text

2004-06-29 Thread Andy Stringer
When I came in this morning things seemed clearer. I just deleted the file dbo.CitNewsSelect.PRC,v from cvsroot, updated the directory, and re-added. Works like a charm. Only problem is I lost all previous history on the file... might be nice to avoid that if possible. If anyone knows how to do

Is this the expect behavior of update?

2004-06-29 Thread Steven Levine
Hi, I've got a client that did not do quite what I told them to and they ended up with some results they did not expect. FWIW, we are running a private 1.12.x build on eCS (i.e. OS/2) that for our purposes is working well. The client discovered some import errors (missing -k b flags) after some

Internal error: p_test_date must be an actual date, not TIME_ZONE_INFORMAATION format.

2004-06-29 Thread Scott Bolton
preface: - using cvs commands from the command prompt - using cvsnt v2.0.41a - running Windows 2000 Pro SP4 for both my client and server when i commit a file to the repository, i

triggering client-script on commit

2004-06-29 Thread jean-gert nesselbosch
hello everybody, I'd like to trigger a script on the cvs-clients machine, in case he has successfully commited a file to the repository. I know about how to trigger scripts on the server (with the help of the loginfo, commitinfo etc. - files). but what about triggering sripts/programms on the

Re: cvsnt on windows 2000 pro

2004-06-29 Thread Murrgon
Lynn McGuire wrote: Does cvsnt http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/ OK for a cvs repository on a windows 2000 pro machine ? Or, is it better to go ahead and setup a linux or bsd box ? Works fine for me on win2k professional. ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL

update on remote working copy

2004-06-29 Thread Paulo Franzon
Hi, I have a machine, aka server where stays the repository. I use another machine with a woking copy where I do my changes. Until here all right. I can update this local copy and commit it. Good. But now: the server also has a working copy of the repository witch I need to update when I commit

Re: update on remote working copy

2004-06-29 Thread jean-gert nesselbosch
well, I'm a cvs-newbee too, but why not trigger a script on the repository-server to update your server-sandbox as soon as you commit something from your remote sandbox to the repository-server. you might use the file loginfo on the repository-server : put an appropriate line in there to trigger

line number to revision

2004-06-29 Thread WannaLeanOO
Hello, Is there a command line tool or command that would quickly translate filename + line number to revision number. Thanks in advance, James ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

changing remote server for existing project

2004-06-29 Thread Roger Levy
Hi, I have a project checked out of a remote server with a shared file system, and now the particular server that I checked out the project under has gone down. There are other machines with the same filesystem mounted via which I would like to update and commit existing changes. How is this

Re: line number to revision

2004-06-29 Thread WannaLeanOO
Is there a command line tool or command that would quickly translate filename + line number to revision number. Is it possible at all, to do revers lookup from filename + line number to revision (or version) number, rather than iterating through each version? Thanks in advance, James

Re: line number to revision

2004-06-29 Thread Robin Rosenberg
WannaLeanOO wrote: Is there a command line tool or command that would quickly translate filename + line number to revision number. Is it possible at all, to do revers lookup from filename + line number to revision (or version) number, rather than iterating through each version? Look at

Re: line number to revision

2004-06-29 Thread Pierre Asselin
WannaLeanOO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a command line tool or command that would quickly translate filename + line number to revision number. cvs annotate ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Performance problem with FC2 and cvs 1.11.17

2004-06-29 Thread Niclas Granqvist
Hi Group, I had a repository on a Red-hat 9 system and then I moved it to Fedora C2. Now I have a performance problem.. When chcking things out data comes very slowly, but it works. This is my cvs file for xinetd service cvspserver { disable = no socket_type = stream

Re: Performance problem with FC2 and cvs 1.11.17

2004-06-29 Thread Niclas Granqvist
I should also mention that I have cvsweb on the machine, too. The web interface works nicely. Niclas Niclas Granqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Group, I had a repository on a Red-hat 9 system and then I moved it to Fedora C2. Now I have a performance

Re: Performance problem with FC2 and cvs 1.11.17

2004-06-29 Thread Niclas Granqvist
Ok It seems like this is not a problem with CVS. The old machine floodpingning: --- rd42.uwatecag.local ping statistics --- 22843 packets transmitted, 22843 received, 0% loss, time 15202ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.104/0.115/0.412/0.019 ms, ipg/ewma 0.665/0.117 ms [EMAIL PROTECTED] repos]# and the

can i merge 2 repositories?

2004-06-29 Thread Eric Taylor
I am just getting started. I have created a few test repositories, each with one or two modules. repository one: (/home/test/rep1) CVSROOT module-1 module-2 repository two: (/home/test/rep2) CVSROOT module-3 Can I simply copy (or move) a repository module directory from one repository to

Re: line number to revision

2004-06-29 Thread LEE Sau Dan
WannaLeanOO == WannaLeanOO [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WannaLeanOO Hello, Is there a command line tool or command that WannaLeanOO would quickly translate filename + line number to WannaLeanOO revision number. cvs annotate? -- Lee Sau Dan +Z05biGVm-

Project in a cvs, library in another

2004-06-29 Thread Ababccc
Hi all, I am a complete cvs newbie. I'm wondering what people usually do, in case there is a project on CVS which uses a C++ library which is in a completely separated CVS. If the library gets changed (for its own purposes) the project might get screwed... Do the people usually avoid using the

log

2004-06-29 Thread Sjur Vestli
Dear Newsgroup I fail to generate the log of a file (files) for a given period, say for instance I would like the log messages of revisions checked in between the 18th of June 2004 and 22nd of June 2004. I try something like: cvs -d REPOSITORY log -d 2004-06-18;2004-06-22 *.Mod Whatever variant

Re: listing new files in a local directory

2004-06-29 Thread Pierre Asselin
John Hanny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like a cvs command that tells me what files in the current directory are new. One hack that I've been using is cvs update. The files that are prefixed by '?' are new. Unfortunately, this has the side-effect of updating my local directory files if they

import - no checkout possible

2004-06-29 Thread calmar
hi, When I import a directory (cd into it + 'cvs import b-c-r vendor tag') it says there have been no conflics. but when I want to checkout it with: 'cvs checkout b-c-r' it tells me cvs [server aborted]: there is no repository /var/cvs/htdocs When I cd into the /var/cvs/ there is in fact no

cvs over ssh with multiple users

2004-06-29 Thread Chris_V
Hello list, this is my problem: I have a user account on a linux machine and we can use CVS on it using the ssh protocol for security reasons (ext). This works fine for me and I can log in using my account username and account password. Now, how can I give access to this CVS repository to other

Cannot connect to CVS server

2004-06-29 Thread Andrew Golebiowski
This has, most likely, been already discussed more than ones but I cannot find anything that would offer me a hint. Here is the problem. When I try to log in from WinCVS client to the server it asks for the password and after it is entered responds with the following: cvs [login aborted]:

Re: Project in a cvs, library in another

2004-06-29 Thread Pierre Asselin
Ababccc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering what people usually do, in case there is a project on CVS which uses a C++ library which is in a completely separated CVS. If the library gets changed (for its own purposes) the project might get screwed... In cases like that, I equip the

Error no 2401 in checking out code using CVS

2004-06-29 Thread BB
Hi, I am trying to check out code from the handhelds.org website using, cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs login and entered the paswd anoncvs when prompted. After that I got an error message: cvs[login aborted]: connect to cvs.handhelds.org(192.58.209.90):2401failed: Connection

Deleting a branch, Can't do it.

2004-06-29 Thread Aries
Hi all I have read the previous post, some one claims that the -B switch will do. But looks like my CVS do not understand -B switch. When I type CVS version, I get the following info: Client: Concurrent Versions System (CVS) NT 1.11.1.2 (Build 41) (client/server) Server: Concurrent Versions

update -d doesn't get newly added files?

2004-06-29 Thread rob
At work we are doing development in a branch, and when other developers add files to the branch, I have to do cvs co -r branchname filename to get them. cvs up -d does not get the new files. Am I missing something here? If I say cvs status, I can see that all the files in my sandbox do have the

Re: Deleting a branch, Can't do it.

2004-06-29 Thread Darek Cieslak
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Aries wrote: And how could I remove a branch? That branch was accidentally created and no one has ever created anything on it. Can some one please help? I suggest use: cvs adm -n branch-name It will also work for tags. I use this command regularry after

File date and timestamp

2004-06-29 Thread godfather2
I have a binary file that is in my repository, libtemp.a, which has the following timestamp in cvsroot (i.e., timestamp in the Unix filesystem): Jun 18 09:42. Apparently, this is the time when I last tagged the file. When I check out the file (with WinCVS, by the way), the date on the file is

Re: Deleting a branch, Can't do it.

2004-06-29 Thread Russ
Would this also remove any revisions made in that branch? Darek Cieslak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Aries wrote: And how could I remove a branch? That branch was accidentally created and no one has ever created anything on it. Can

Sharing files between branches

2004-06-29 Thread Russ
In there any way to tweak a file so that it's shared between all branches? TIA - russ - ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Checkout problem with 1.11.17

2004-06-29 Thread Arnaud
Hi, The CVSROOT of our project is located in the home directory of a friend (/udd//cvs). We are in the same group and the permissions are /udd/ : drwx--x---, /udd//cvs : drwxr-x---. Everything works perfectly with the version 1.11 of GNU cvs. When I try to checkout our project with

Problems rebuilding CVSROOT after a commit

2004-06-29 Thread Count Zero
Hi ! First excuse me but I don't speak (nor write) english very well ;(, and this is my first post to this group. Is needed to say that I'm not a CVS expert ;(, sorry. This is the situation: - The client is a Fedora Core 2 using cvs 1.11.15 - The server is a Debian Woody 3.0 using cvs 1.11.1p1

after deleting a direcory: how to get rid of the message New directory `dir' -- ignored

2004-06-29 Thread leo
hi there i use cvs with emacs front pcl-cvs and have a little problemwith removed directories: when i have removed a directory from the repository i get the message New directory `dir' -- ignored even though the cvs command string contains -P. how can i get rid of this message? can i ask cvs to

Check out question.

2004-06-29 Thread Hon Seng Phuah
My question is: I have four subdirectories in a CVS repository, such as: +-a |--b |--c |--d If the a/b/c module contains a few files. If I want to add new module using an empty hard drive, I will have to invoke cvs co a/b/c first. Only then I invoke cvs add directory command.

Re: cvs over ssh with multiple users

2004-06-29 Thread Izo
Chris_V wrote: Hello list, this is my problem: I have a user account on a linux machine and we can use CVS on it using the ssh protocol for security reasons (ext). This works fine for me and I can log in using my account username and account password. Now, how can I give access to this CVS

Re: Cannot connect to CVS server

2004-06-29 Thread Izo
Andrew Golebiowski wrote: What am I missing? Can someone help? Maybe this should also be done: 1. Uncommenting (or adding) and editing the cvspserver line in /etc/inetd.conf: cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/bin/cvs -f --allow-root=someCVSrepository

Re: Updating Locally Modified

2004-06-29 Thread Larry Jones
Prashant writes: Hi, this is my problem. I have a file that is locally modified (i.e. newer than the version in the repository), but what I want to do update my working version from the repository version (i.e. merge the changes i've made). CVS won't let me do this because it doesn't merge

RE: Deleting a branch, Can't do it.

2004-06-29 Thread Christopher.Fouts
Try cvs rtag -d -B TagName Module (Notice the uppercase B) -chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ] On Behalf Of Chemie TEILEREINIGUNG ABSCHEIDUNG (CL VI) Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 4:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Deleting a branch, Can't

RE: listing new files in a local directory

2004-06-29 Thread Jim.Hyslop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use the -n flag to turn off the side-effect. cvs -nq update -I! -ICVS | grep \^\\\? Why are you suppressing the ignored files? This could give a bunch of spurious new files that you want to ignore. -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology

Re: Import problem

2004-06-29 Thread Larry Jones
Peg writes: This seems to work and reports no errors. However when I cd /export/home/alexHome and do cvs checkout project I get ? next to all the directories, and I can't cvs update any files. That's because you already have a project directory there that's full of

Re: update on remote working copy

2004-06-29 Thread Larry Jones
Paulo Franzon writes: I would like to type something like this from my command prompt: cvs update the other machine I am john my password is this you know who am I /this path/this file That's what rsh and its modern, secure sibling, ssh are for. -Larry Jones I take it there's no qualifying

Re: changing remote server for existing project

2004-06-29 Thread Larry Jones
Roger Levy writes: I have a project checked out of a remote server with a shared file system Having a repository on a shared file system is a recipe for disaster. Unless you have a hetergeneous environment where the file server and all the clients are running identical software of the file

Re: log

2004-06-29 Thread Larry Jones
Sjur Vestli writes: Whatever variant of 2004-06-18;2004-06-22 I use I also get revisions checked in in May (and not modified since). That's because what you've asked for is the log message for 2004-06-18 and the log message for 2004-06-22. To ask for all the log messages between those dates

Re: import - no checkout possible

2004-06-29 Thread Larry Jones
calmar writes: When I import a directory (cd into it + 'cvs import b-c-r vendor tag') it says there have been no conflics. but when I want to checkout it with: 'cvs checkout b-c-r' it tells me cvs [server aborted]: there is no repository /var/cvs/htdocs That implies that you're trying

Re: cvs over ssh with multiple users

2004-06-29 Thread Larry Jones
Chris_V writes: I have a user account on a linux machine and we can use CVS on it using the ssh protocol for security reasons (ext). This works fine for me and I can log in using my account username and account password. Now, how can I give access to this CVS repository to other people

Re: Cannot connect to CVS server

2004-06-29 Thread Larry Jones
Andrew Golebiowski writes: cvs [login aborted]: connect to [IP-address]:2401 failed: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. Something is blocking access from the client to port 2401 on the server. Either the router is not correctly set up to let the

Re: Deleting a branch, Can't do it.

2004-06-29 Thread Larry Jones
Russ writes: Would this also remove any revisions made in that branch? No. CVS, unfortunately, has no convenient way to remove all the revisions on a branch. -Larry Jones What's the matter? Don't you trust your own kid?! -- Calvin ___ Info-cvs

Re: can i merge 2 repositories?

2004-06-29 Thread Larry Jones
Eric Taylor writes: Can I simply copy (or move) a repository module directory from one repository to another? Yep, it's really that easy. As an correlary, is there any real difference between multiple repositories of one project each, and the same set of multiple projects all in one

Re: Checkout problem with 1.11.17

2004-06-29 Thread Larry Jones
Arnaud writes: The CVSROOT of our project is located in the home directory of a friend (/udd//cvs). We are in the same group and the permissions are /udd/ : drwx--x---, /udd//cvs : drwxr-x---. Everything works perfectly with the version 1.11 of GNU cvs. No it doesn't, you just

Re: Check out question.

2004-06-29 Thread Larry Jones
Hon Seng Phuah writes: Unfortunately, by invoke checkout command, it will checkout all a/b/c module files into my new hard drive. Is there a way to prevent checking out all module files into my new hard drive? Use the -l option of checkout to prevent recursion. -Larry Jones I keep

Re: Sharing files between branches

2004-06-29 Thread Larry Jones
Russ writes: In there any way to tweak a file so that it's shared between all branches? No. -Larry Jones Nobody knows how to pamper like a Mom. -- Calvin ___ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs

Re: new member Problem with huge files/folders in CVS

2004-06-29 Thread Robin Rosenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It seems CVS uses the /tmp folder to store the uploaded files intermediately. When I tried to do Import of a huge folder the size of my / partition got filled and no one else in my group could continue using CVS till I removed the CVS information in the

Re: Cannot connect to CVS server

2004-06-29 Thread Hon Seng Phuah
Izo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Andrew Golebiowski wrote: What am I missing? Can someone help? Maybe this should also be done: 1. Uncommenting (or adding) and editing the cvspserver line in /etc/inetd.conf: cvspserver stream tcp nowait root

Re: listing new files in a local directory

2004-06-29 Thread Pierre Asselin
Jim.Hyslop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use the -n flag to turn off the side-effect. cvs -nq update -I! -ICVS | grep \^\\\? Why are you suppressing the ignored files? This could give a bunch of spurious new files that you want to ignore. Because that's how I

Re: Smoke, FUD (was Re: CVS corrupts binary files ...)

2004-06-29 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Sander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] =20 Rather than use a hint to expose an implementation detail, I suggest recording a data type instead. Maybe even a MIME type. Then provide a suitable mechanism to map

RE: CVS corrupts binary files ...

2004-06-29 Thread Paul Sander
--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ On Monday, June 28, 2004 at 11:00:23 (-0400), Jim.Hyslop wrote: ] Subject: RE: CVS corrupts binary files ... Any manual procedure is prone to error. I prefer to automate things as much as possible, to minimize the possibility of human error. Any