[cvsnt] Re: keyword expansion woes on import

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Thu Jul 15 01:27:17 BST 2004


David Somers wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> When I import a third-party library into my CVS, I specify -ko. The problem
> is that if the import contains files that are binary (as set in
> CVSROOT/cvswrappers), they are also tagged -ko and not -kb ... which means
> when I do a checkout, the binary files are corrupted.
> 
> Is there any way to get around this?

Use the -W option to set wrappers, or setup in cvswrappers.  Frontends 
do this automatically so this may be a better option.

Tony



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