[cvsnt] Re: Converting binary files to ASCII

[Tony Hoyle]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 19:17:30 +0800, "Christian Hack"
<christianh at edmi.com.au> wrote:

>I just converted some Borland forms from their proprietary binary format to
>a text format. Initially they were in the repository as binary files. So I
>removed them, committed, added the new ASCII files making sure they were
>ASCII and then committed again.
>
>Subsequent checkouts still show them as binary files though. I didn't change
>their names at all and on the second commit the new ASCII forms assumed the
>next revisions of the old binary files.
>

It depends on your server version.  Later versions of CVSNT support
this but with other versions you have to change the type manually
using cvs admin.

On Unix CVS you can't safely change the type the expansion option
isn't versioned - it just corrupts all your previous versions.

Tony