Re: [Dirssync-opendisc] Checkout problem on DirsSync.png

[vincent d. <vin...@ya...>]

I've updated cvs for the binary files :
DirsSync.png, Dirssync.xpm, dirssync.mo (in it and
fr).

Thus windows users will be able to use correctly cvs.

Thanks Mark for the remark and the CVS command.





--- Mark Carter <xs...@uk...> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> --- vincent delft <vin...@ya...> wrote:
> 
> > Done.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> >a commit is needed ? 
> 
> Apparently not.
> 
> > cvs says nothing ....
> 
> I think you don't need to worry about it.
> 
> > bash-2.05b$ cvs admin -kb DirsSync.png
> 
> That fixes the problem!
> 
> What's going on is as I expected.
> 
> There are developer privileges, and there are admin
> privileges. Although developers can update and
> commit (and hopefully add) files to the repository,
> they can't perform any of the cvs admin commands. 
> The -kb flag tells the repository that the file is a
> binary file. This probably doesn't make too much
> difference to a Unix user, but makes a world of
> difference to a Windows user. What happens is that
> Windows performs end-of-line translations. Alas, a
> decision that Bill Gates made more than 20 years ago
> has affected the interoperability of files to this
> very day.
> 
> Whilst the translation is OK for text files (the py
> files, etc.), it ruins binary files. Extra
> characters are inserted in the file - causing it to
> corrupt. So the -kb flag needs to be set for all the
> binary files in the repository. Vincent has already
> done the png file - he will now need to do the xpm
> file. The pot file looks like it's actually ASCII,
> so presumably no modification needs to be made.
> 
> I've opened up the files in the locale directory.
> The .po files appear to be ASCII, and the .mo files
> appear to be binary. So Vincent will have to do cvs
> admin -kb on the .mo files.
> 
> Probably no commit is required - because it
> presumably just sets a flag, without changing the
> file.
> 
> What Windows users will notice, if they do a 'cvs
> status' on the files, is that they will appear as
> being locally modified. This is due to the
> end-of-line problem. So, when Vincent has performed
> the cvs admin -kb commands, everyone using Windows
> should delete the appropriate files and perform a
> 'cvs update'. This will redownload the deleted files
> - only this time there shouldn't be any problems.
> 
> I tried this procedure with DirsSync.png - and it
> worked successfully.
> 
> 
> 
>
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