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Re: Text-mode issues
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 13:37:40 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Text-mode issues
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 20 May 2003, Benjamin Riefenstahl wrote:
> [snip]
> 3) The binary files in CVS are not marked as such (cvs admin -kb).
> This is not only in the hw/xwin directory, but in the whole XFree
> CVS. In theory this is not only an issue on Windows but on Unix
> also. In practice, a regular CVS checkout is just broken on
> Windows, unless you only use Cygwin's CVS tools with binary mounts.
>
> I'd like to help fixing those issues. I have downloaded the CVS
> (although I will have to do it again with a binary mount) and after
> that I am going to start compiling, than doing the necessary code
> review and debugging. If any of you have any input, I'd like to hear
> about it.
>
> The first thing for development is item 3), the CVS setup. Has this
> ever been discussed? Or is it just that nobody is aware of the
> problem yet? I guess I'll need to post to devel@Xfree86.org about it,
> I just subscribed to that list.
>
> so long, benny
Benny,
FYI, binary files in CVS should be marked with -kb even if they are
extracted to binary mounts. -kb only controls how the CVS keywords are
expanded, so that if a binary file happens to contain a string like
"$id$", it would not be expanded on checkout to something like
"$Id: file.bin YYYY/MM/DD HH:mm:ss name " (thus effectively corrupting the
binary). If the binary files in the XFree86 tree aren't thus marked, it's
a bug waiting to happen.
Igor
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