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Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > What I found surprising is that it doesn't work but is allowed. Shouldn't a > command that doesn't work (like deleting a revision that changes the > storage type) be caught and rejected? > The admin -o code predates the existence of storage types.. probably even expansion options (back in history - when we were still tracking cvs 1.11 - it didn't work with binary files at all... corrupted them every time). It's such a rare occurrence it's really not worth spending any time on (well there isn't the time to spend on it.. there are only 7 days in a week, and a long list of things to do) - in 5 years you're the first one to have even noticed, and I've known about the potential issue for 3 of those.. Tony