Working with FP import

2002-07-30 Thread Patrick Nelson 

I have a customer who I want me to implement cvs so they can get in control
of their web development.  The problem that I have come up with is that
their web site is developed with ms Front Page.  FP has these index
directories with text files in them which have names like the files in the
parent directory.  So, I have file that are binary and a matching file that
is text like:

  MyLovely.jpg
  vti_cnf/MyLovely.jpg

The MyLovely.jpg is the image file and vti_cnf/MyLovely.jpg is the text
file.  The problem comes with importing this.  I have do a very slow and
manual process to do this by hand.  I was wondering if there is a way or if
someone has a process to handle this kind of situation.

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Re: Working with FP import

2002-07-30 Thread Eric Siegerman 

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 09:35:50AM -0700, Patrick Nelson wrote:
 ms Front Page [...] has these index
 directories with text files in them which have names like the files in the
 parent directory.  So, I have file that are binary and a matching file that
 is text like:
 
   MyLovely.jpg
   vti_cnf/MyLovely.jpg

I can only think of a kludge: add a .cvswrappers to each vti_cnf
directory that labels *everything* as text.  This'll work, but
it's fragile, since a user has to remember to do it every time
they add a new directory -- and I'm sure FrontPage carefully
hides the vti_cnf subdirectories from users.

On the other hand, what's the harm in checking in the vti_cnf
files as binary?  If they're only used by FrontPage:
  - they don't have CVS keywords to be expanded
  - they're only used under Windows, so who cares if they come
out on UNIX boxes with extra ^M's?

On the other other hand, what happens if you simply don't check
in the vti_cnf files at all -- just put vti_cnf in
CVSROOT/cvsignore?  That might break FP completely ...  or it
might only break it in an acceptably minor way :-)

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