Re: changing a files CVS storage type from ascii to binary?

[Larry Jones]

Alex Mouton writes:
> 
> Is there a way to change a files storage type from ascii to binary besides
> removing and readding the file?  I have a number of project files (.vcproj)
> which have been rather fussy in ascii mode.  I will do the remove-add trick
> If I have too, but I would like to keep the revision history If possible.

cvs admin -kb will change the file type in the repository (you'll then
need to do "cvs up -A" in your working directory to update it, too). 
That will cause CVS to reinterpret the existing text data as binary
data; whether that is sensible or not depends on the exact form of the
file.

-Larry Jones

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