[cvsnt] Re: binary files

[Tony Hoyle]

Victor A. Wagner Jr. wrote:

> 
> then why does init tell you about it when it creates the cvswrappers file??
> 
It's a bit ambiguous but that text has always been there (it's the same in 
1.10.x AFAIK).
The documentation is more explicit that this refers only to text files.

> I had
> *.pdf -k 'b'
> import a pdf file
> check it out and it's 1/10 the size... I have no idea what messed up, 
> that's why I started looking at -m

That should have worked (at least given a recent-ish cvsnt client/server 
combination).  Unless it's overridden in your global .cvswrappers file of course.

Frontends tend to pass an explicit -W option on the command line to avoid 
ambiguity...  AFAIK cvswrappers didn't work too well on old CVS versions 
(never did for me anyway) so people just worked around it.

> 
> I ask again why does init put a cvswrapper file in that mentions -m ??
> 
History, basically.  Nobody's really mentioned it before.

> sorry, the option was -s .... worked on co, ci, log  ... set the "state" 
> that used to show up in the log (the default setting was  exp

There's no record of such an option at cvshome.org, and I certainly haven't 
removed it.  You might be thinking of the old RCS tools... state in CVS refers 
only to dead or alive, not anything special - it's always 'Exp' on a live 
revision (for historical reasons).

Tony

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