svn binary file altered on local copy

Dave Korn dave.korn@artimi.com
Fri Apr 1 15:32:00 GMT 2005


----Original Message----
>From: Vincent Dedun
>Sent: 01 April 2005 16:11

> There is a problem with standard 1.5.13-1
> <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2005-03/msg00000.html>
> cygwin installation, on svn program.
> I use windows xp sp2 with all updates.
> 
> When i try to commit a gz file in the repository, it get corrupted on
> the local copy, so you can't gunzip it again.
> The same thing happens with a windows resource file (.resources, can't
> open it after the commit), and i think with other binary files.
> Windows icon files don't get corrupted (or at least, the picture is not
> altered by this).

  Check your line-endings, you probably have either the repository or the
local copy mounted in textmode.  IIRC svn is known to not play well with
textmode mountpoints.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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