RE: How to disable the cvs versioning for a specific binary file inour program CVS repository

[Arthur Barrett]

Guillaume,

What version of CVS are you using?  Which version on the client, which
on the server?

> > These archives can be quite big. I don't want that the CVS
> > make a version for each one (it takes too much place). But I want
> > that these test cases stay in the CVS repository and that they are
> > downloaded, if I do a checkout. Is that possible ?
> 
> There is no way to use CVS to store a file without a 
> revision.  

It depends on the version of CVS ;) 

If you are using CVSNT (CVS 2.x) on linux, mac, solaris, hpux or windows
then you just use the -1 keyword expansion option:
http://march-hare.com/library/cvsnt/Substitution-modes.html


> 
> If you then use something like `cvs admin -o 1.1 test_cases.tgz`, 
> 

Beware of using 'cvs admin' arbitrarily, it's an 'admin' option, and (in
my opinion) not designed for 'day to day' use.  I.e.: before running
'cvs admin' I always make sure I've got a backup of the repository.

Regards,


Arthur Barrett