Re: knowledge of binary designation in cvswrappers for commitinfo script

[Derek Robert Price]

David Everly wrote:

> My developers sometimes ftp text files as binary from windows to a
> unix machine and then commit these files to cvs.
>
> I have these files defined in cvswrappers as:
>
> -k 'o'
>
> Some other files are defined in cvswrappers as:
>
> -k 'b'
>
> In my commitinfo script, how do I discover if the file is marked
>
> -k 'o'
>
> so I can run dos2unix on it before the commit?
>  

I think your options might be parsing the RCS file or hacking CVS.  I 
have a patch that should make that easier: 
<http://ximbiot.com/ccvs.newfmtstrings.1-11.diff>, in case you're 
interested.

Alternatively, you could use the UNIX `file' command or "perl -e 'exit 
-T $ARGV[0]' file"

Derek

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