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

[Chris Wolf]

Ok, done.

On 9/5/2001 at 2:00 PM xiphmont at xiph.org wrote:

>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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