Hi Peter, On Mar 27, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Peter Dimov wrote:

The following files in the main CVS are binary but do not appear to be marked as such:

M libs/program_options/test/ucs2.txt M libs/program_options/test/utf8.txt M libs/ptr_container/doc/cboost.gif

The sandbox CVS also contains such files:

M boost/ptr_container/ptr_container.tgz M libs/numeric/bindings/doc/c++boost.gif M libs/ptr_container/doc/cboost.gif M libs/sequence_algo/doc/cboost.gif

These are corrupted by the Windows CVS clients on every checkout via CR insertion. The easiest way to avoid this is to just not check in binary files in the CVS.

That's a bit drastic. The files should be added using a -kb argument, as follows: cvs add -kb filename.txt This will avoid keyword expansion. To recover files already in trouble, do this: (on a UNIX system) cvs admin -kb filename.txt cvs update -A filename.txt (on a windows system) cvs admin -kb filename.txt -- copy a known-good copy of the file over the original cvs commit -m "fixed binary file" filename.txt Why does this happen? UNIX systems do not differentiate between text and binary files, and treat everything as text - the CVS behaviour is part of this legacy. Hope this helps... Michael

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