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Re: CVS screwing up Word documents


From: Mark Priest
Subject: Re: CVS screwing up Word documents
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 22:43:51 -0400

Neil,

If the keyword expansion is not correct for your Word files then one of two
things must be happening.  Either you are using the -k option with the
checkout, add, or update commands or there is something wrong with your
cvswrappers file.  Make sure that you are not passing a -k flag when
checking out or updating files (or using the -k flag on adds) since it
becomes "sticky" when it used with these two commands.  Alternatively,
specifically use -kb explicitly whenever you are adding binary files such as
Word documents.

Cygwin programs can operate on files in either binary or text mode as
explained in http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-textbinary.html.  You
might want to try adding "tty binmode" to your CYGWIN  environment variable
to ensure that Cygwin programs are always using binary mode.  If tty is not
set then I think that the Cygwin cvs client might treat standard input and
output in text mode rather than binary mode which would corrupt the cvs
protocol.

Good Luck,

Mark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neil Aggarwal" <address@hidden>
To: "'Mark Priest'" <address@hidden>
Cc: "'CVS-II Discussion Mailing List'" <address@hidden>
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 9:40 PM
Subject: RE: CVS screwing up Word documents


> Mark:
>
> > This should not happen if the cvswrappers file has that line
> > and your Word
> > docs have a .doc extension.
>
> That is what we have.
>
> > You can use the log command to
> > verify that the
> > Keyword substitution is set to 'b' for those files.
>
> I did that.  The keyword substituion is set to
> kv, which is wrong.
>
> > Are you
> > using Cygwin by
> > any chance?  If so it is possible that you are running into a
> > problem with
> > line ending conversions from Cygwin.
>
> Yes, we are using cygwin to tunnel the cvs thru ssh.
>
> Do you know how to work around this?
>
> Thanks,
> Neil
>
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