Re: Binary files ends up as a text file during checkout

[Tuan]

Arthur Barrett wrote:
> > I had a CVS server on a Windows machine using CVSNT. 
> > I recently moved
> > to Ubuntu and set it up as the CVS server.  
>
> You will need to use CVSNT on Ubuntu - CVSNT repositories are not
> compatible with CVS 1.11/1.12.
>
> The correct newsgroup for CVSNT is:
> http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt
> or
> news://news.cvsnt.org/support.cvsnt
>
>
> Can Ubuntu use the RH9 RPM's?  If so just download the RPM marked as for
> RHEL4 - it's actually built on RH9.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Arthur
I did some searching and found some people were using this command to 
change a file marked as text to binary in CVS:

cvs admin -kb [file name]
cvs update -A [file name]

Of course the commands above were used to fix the problem when users 
accidentally added a binary file as a text file while using the same 
repository and CVS server.  My case is different, I moved my CVSNT 
repository to my Ubuntu Server running CVS 1.12.13 and all my binary 
files somehow ended up marked as text files after the first initial 
checkout.

I am sticking with the CVS server I currently have installed on Ubuntu 
(Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.12.13).  Does anybody see any 
potential problems with using this method to fix my problem?

I know you mentioned that CVSNT repositories are not compatible with CVS 
1.11/1.12.  Can you elaborate on that?  I was able to check out the my 
CVSNT repository once I moved it over to my CVS 1.12.13 Ubuntu Server 
without a problem except for the binary/text issue I mentioned.  Is 
there anything else thats not compatible or will be an issue for me?