Re: Need Help with .htm file in CVS.

[Jim Hyslop]

Russ Sherk wrote:
> On 8/29/05, Maninder Singh(SDG) <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Hi Russ/ All,
> >        Thanks for the immediate help. That was really helpful.
> >
> > However, there is still one query in my mind; as it says that copying
> > the Mac file to a PC results in the loss of the resoource fork. But we
> > haven't checked out the file on a PC. We've just checked-in the .htm
> > file with the correct info through MacCVS client into CVS (running on
> > Suse Linux) and later checking-out the same file on the same Mac changes
> > it's Creator / TYPE fields. Is  the PC interface that you specified,
> > specifically the Windows platform (which in this case does not come in
> > the picture), or is it any machine other than a MAC machine?
>
>
> It doesn't matter where you check it out to.  The MAC setting is per
> file.

More to the point: CVS does not capture any kind of OS-specific 
information. Creator and Type fields (fields in general, actually) are 
specific to Mac computers, and have no meaning on other platforms.

I suppose it might be possible to extend CVS to capture OS-specific 
metadata, but that would be a fairly significant development effort.

--
Jim