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Re: changing a files CVS storage type from ascii to binary?
From: |
Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: changing a files CVS storage type from ascii to binary? |
Date: |
Fri, 30 Aug 2002 17:07:35 -0400 (EDT) |
Alex Mouton writes:
>
> Is there a way to change a files storage type from ascii to binary besides
> removing and readding the file? I have a number of project files (.vcproj)
> which have been rather fussy in ascii mode. I will do the remove-add trick
> If I have too, but I would like to keep the revision history If possible.
cvs admin -kb will change the file type in the repository (you'll then
need to do "cvs up -A" in your working directory to update it, too).
That will cause CVS to reinterpret the existing text data as binary
data; whether that is sensible or not depends on the exact form of the
file.
-Larry Jones
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