[cvsnt] Re: when are changes to cvswrapper applied

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Mon Nov 1 05:28:54 GMT 2004


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Matt Epstein wrote:
> I have just installed v.2.0.58c and am trying to move a VSS source tree over
> to a new repo in CVS. I unfortunately did not account for all the binary
> file types we are committing to the repo when I configured the server and
> repo initially. I have edited the cvswrappers file in the cvsroot folder at
> the base of the repo, restarted both the server and my client workstation,
> yet I still get my client trying to add the binary file types (.wav) as
> text/ascii. I understand that it may in fact be my client (TortoiseCVS,
> latest build) but I was wondering if there is anything on the server side
> that I might not be aware of that could help.

The client knows nothing of the server side cvswrappers (unless it's 
coded to use the cvs info command, and AFAIK only WinCVS uses that at 
the moment).  If the cvswrappers is set the files will get added as 
binary anyway, unless the client forces them to text.

Tony



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