Fw: Converting binary files to text (revisited) or (cvs admin -kkv doesn't work)

[Dennis Jones]

Nevermind.  I guess the user still just has to do a 'cvs up -A' to remove
the stickiness of the keyword substitution.  Not an ideal situation, but it
gets the job done.

- Dennis

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Jones" <address@hidden>
To: "CVS Mailing List" <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 1:58 PM
Subject: Converting binary files to text (revisited) or (cvs admin -kkv
doesn't work)


> As I mentioned a few days ago, I am trying to convert what once were
binary
> files to text.  Following what appeared to be a good solution from this
> mailing list, I tried the following:
>
> cat /dev/null > filename.ext
> cvs ci -m 'kb -> kv' filename.ext
> cvs admin -kkv filename.ext
>
> copy file from good location
>
> cvs ci -m 'text version of the file' filename.ext
>
> Unfortunately, "cvs admin -kkv" did not change the state of the file.
> According to "cvs stat", the file is still tagged as binary with the 'kb'
> flag, and keyword expansion/substitution is not working (of course).
>
> What do I have to do to force CVS to accept the change to keyword
> substitution?
>
> - Dennis
>