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Re: How to generate diffs on binary file from CVS?
- To: hjl at lucon dot org
- Subject: Re: How to generate diffs on binary file from CVS?
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 20:42:26 -0400
- CC: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <20010726174004.A10789@lucon.org>
> cvs server: failed to read diff file header /tmp/cvsRkXoyg for
> bmp1.bmp,v: end of file
I specifically checked those in with -kb, cvs should know what to do
with them. You don't normally diff a binary file, you just overwrite
it.
> Shouldn't we uuencode it and uudeocde before the test is run?
Uudecode isn't available on all systems. Besides, cvs is *supposed*
to handle binary data properly.