[Cvsnt] Binary file questions

SJG sgeertgens at transgenomic.com
Wed Feb 20 19:56:27 GMT 2002


  Strike me previous reply... it _is_ doing the right thing, from the
command line. It seems to be WinCVS that is doing something odd. Thanks!

"Bo Berglund" <bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote in message
news:3c73fa6b.419521203 at news.cvsnt.org...
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 18:53:38 +0000 (UTC), "SJG"
> <sgeertgens at transgenomic.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >  I'm aware of the need to use '-kb' when adding a binary file to CVS...
> >Let's say, however, that I'm up to v1.9 of a particular binary file, but
> >want to retrieve v1.2. How do I do this correctly? Everytime I do so, the
> >file comes out corrupted, because CVS is still adding history info right
> >into the binary file (even though I have double checked to ensure that it
is
> >marked as  a binary file!).
> > Is it not possible to retrieve past revisions of a binary file?
> >
> cvs update -r 1.2 binaryfile.bin
>
>
>
> /Bo
> (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)
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