Re: [E-devel] images in CVS are marked as text

2004-06-12 Thread The Rasterman
On Sun, 9 May 2004 05:02:50 -0700 (PDT) Shish [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: It seems that the images in CVS were checked in as plain unix text, so anyone checking them out with the native windows client will have them corrupted by being changed to windows' line endings. I got round

Re: [E-devel] images in CVS are marked as text

2004-05-09 Thread Kim Woelders
Shish wrote: It seems that the images in CVS were checked in as plain unix text, so anyone checking them out with the native windows client will have them corrupted by being changed to windows' line endings. I got round this by checking out CVS with -kb (force binary), but they should really be

Re: [E-devel] images in CVS are marked as text

2004-05-09 Thread Shish
1) Images and other binary stuff should be checked in (added) with -kb for several reasons, this not being one of them. I know -kb helps CVS figure out how to do some things, but what other reasons are there, and why isn't binary file corruption one of them? 2) When working with unix stuff

Re: [E-devel] images in CVS are marked as text

2004-05-09 Thread Kim Woelders
Shish wrote: 1) Images and other binary stuff should be checked in (added) with -kb for several reasons, this not being one of them. I know -kb helps CVS figure out how to do some things, but what other reasons are there, and why isn't binary file corruption one of them? The -kb flag can be set