[cvsnt] update -p option over binary files

[Jerzy Kaczorowski]

>Not sure why you'd want to
> though - -p is for displaying on the console... not something you'd want
to do
> with a binary file.
>
> Just use checkout for that.

Basically the use of "update -p" is the only way to get given revision of
the file without making it sticky and creating the sandbox. WinCvs is using
it for "external diff" and "retrieve revision" commands. Personally I would
like to use the checkout or rather export for that, but it bails off saying
that I have to specify the symbolic tag.

I can not checkout or export the file specifying the revision (for no good
reason IMHO), so we have only the "update -p" left.

Alternatively it would be nice to be able to specify the output file for any
cvs command so we would not have to perform all that trickery.

Anyhow, I am solving the issue which originates from cvsgui protocol bug
right now so the problem will be gone soon hopefully.

Best Regards,
Jerzy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nodomain.org>
Newsgroups: support.cvsnt
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: [cvsnt] update -p option over binary files


> On Tue, 08 Apr 2003 11:10:59 +0200, irodriguez perez
<irodriguezp at cirsa.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >Hi.
> >
> >I am using cvsnt 2.0.0 on the server and on the client. And WinCVS
> >1.3.12.1.
> >
> >Recently i have tried to retrieve and old revision of a binary file
> >and tried with the next command: update -p -r TAG binary.file (The
command
> >was launch through WinCVS, with the graph and "Retrieve revision"). But
> >the output file (binary.file#TAG) doesn't was the real file, its size
> >wasn't correct. So i tried a checkout command and then the file was
> >correct.
>
> WinCVS can't checkout binary files using -p...  Not sure why you'd want to
> though - -p is for displaying on the console... not something you'd want
to do
> with a binary file.
>
> Just use checkout for that.
>
> Tony
>
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