[Cvsnt] Binary Files

Dave Jones davegjones1 at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Mar 15 16:40:26 GMT 2002


You didn't FTP them as text files or let the ftp client auto-decide the
type did you?

 --- Administrator <Administrator at sbcltd.com> wrote: > When the
repository was on the linux box, I added them in via
> WinCVS1.2 as
> binary files.  Then I moved the repository to a windows box.  Now
> that I am
> using WinCVS 1.3 with CVSNT, when I go to checkout, the binary files
> are
> corrupt.  It seems like it's more a problem with cvsnt than with how
> I
> checked them in, since I know that I checked them in as binary files.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kyrre Kristiansen [mailto:kyrre_kristiansen at yahoo.co.uk]
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 4:05 AM
> To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org
> Subject: Re: [Cvsnt] Binary Files
>
>
> If you're using the command-line client, you must add the files using
> "cvs
> add -kb file", so that CVS knows that it's binary. Otherwise it will
> try to
> change the newlines in the file, which corrupts the file. TortoiseCVS
> has a
> nice feature where it recognises binary files by their extentions.
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