From owner-cvs-all Mon Feb 1 11:34:13 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA04675 for cvs-all-outgoing; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 11:34:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04665; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 11:34:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA28592; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 12:33:59 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA18892; Mon, 1 Feb 1999 12:33:58 -0700 Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 12:33:58 -0700 Message-Id: <199902011933.MAA18892@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Peter Wemm Cc: John Polstra , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/examples/svr4 README compat_sol26.tar. In-Reply-To: <199902010201.KAA06373@spinner.netplex.com.au> References: <199902010201.KAA06373@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > to be backed out for other reasons. They were binary files, not > > uuencoded, and not checked in with "-kb". You don't need me to > > explain the problem with that. > > Good heavens, no. What you did was 100% right. And besides, the -kb > support is dubious anyway, I'm not sure that it would have been handled > correctly even if it was with -kb. FWIW, we use binary files on 3 OS's using CVS w/out any problems. However, you *MUST* use -kb (or use wrappers to auto-recognize them). But, binaries are not handled well or effeciently in CVS. It just makes things work better for our release engineer, which is why we paid to have Cyclic support them. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message