Terry,
There is a seperate mailing list for CVS NT (Tony Hoyle's). You may wish to
visit his web site (http://www.cvsnt.com), and subscribe. He also posted a
new version of CVS NT which "opens files as binary by default", which should
mean that "you can copy a unix repository to NT" (quotes a re paraphrased by
me).
Regs,
Arthur
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry Cross [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 5:02 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Problems Using CVS on NT with Binary files
>
> Hello,
>
> We have a CVS repository which is kept on a Unix machine. I have been
> attempting to use CVS on my NT. The binary files in the repository have
> had the -kb tag turned on by using 'cvs admin -kb foo.gif'. However,
> after a release we tag the branch. This has the effect of removing the
> -kb tags from all those binary files. While this does not cause a problem
> on Unix, the NT checkout shows all the binary files as being modified. If
> we go back and retag the files with -kb, all the maintenance branches will
> now appear to have modified files.
>
> Is this a known problem? I have searched through the documentation and
> have not seen any reference to tagging a branch causing the removal of -kb
> tags. This problem is preventing us from being able to reliably switch to
> using CVS on NT. Any help or advice you have would be welcome.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
> Terry
