[cvsnt] Watched binary files idiosyncrasy

[Martin Cole]

That would work, but I'm using tortoisecvs as my frontend, and the option is
most likely burried in there somewhere. Problem is, that some on our less
savvy user would probably be turned away if they had to use different
options...

Regards
Marts



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nodomain.org>
Newsgroups: support.cvsnt
To: <cvsnt at cvsnt.org>
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 4:08 AM
Subject: Re: [cvsnt] Watched binary files idiosyncrasy


> Martin Cole wrote:
> > There is feature about the way cvs(nt) deals with watched binary's that
negatively affects the way I use cvs and labview.
> >
> > When I request edit permissions on watched labview files (binaries) cvs
makes a copy of the files in the ./cvs/base/ directory, with the exact same
name, presumably to determine if the file has changed.
> >
> > Well the problem is that labview searches for files as it loads them,
and in some dumb fashion it sometimes manages to find the files in the base
directory and hence forth (after commit and unedit) it is not possible to
get stuff compiled without some annoying dialogs popping up. Everything
still manages to work, but it ends up searching for the files each and every
time after.
> >
> > Is there any possibility of prefixing the files in the base directory
with a "~" or something ?
> >
> You could use edit -z to compress them... that'll put .gz on the end of
> the filename.
>
> Tony
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