[vorbis-dev] setting default expansion mode for CVS files

[Monty]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 01:35:55PM -0700, Chris Wolf wrote:
> I've noticed that certain binary files had been checked into cvs with the default expansion mode.
> For example *.png and *.bmp files.  The line ending problem not withstanding, there is still the
> possiblity that these files can be corrupted if the binary data happens to contain byte sequences
> that just happen to match RCS keywords, e.g. "$Id:$", etc.  For that reason, they should still be added
> with "cvs add -kb".
> 
> There is even a better way to handle this, which is to edit the CVSROOT/cvswrappers file to
> identify known binary file types, that way, you don't have to remember to indicate "-kb" upon
> performing a "cvs add".
> 
> For example, with repositories I manage, my cvswrappers file contains:
> 
> *.gif -k 'b'
> *.jpg -k 'b'
> *.jpeg -k 'b'
> *.swf -k 'b'
> *.png -k 'b'
> *.au -k 'b'
> *.opt -k 'b'
> *.wav -k 'b'
> *.ico -k 'b'
> 
> This change can be done as follows:
> 
> cvs co CVSROOT/cvswrappers
> -- edit the file and add the file types
> cvs commit -m "add binary file types" CVSROOT/cvswrappers
> cvs release -d CVSROOT
> 
> Shall we do this?

I say yes.

Monty

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