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

[Bulgrien, Kevin]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arthur Barrett [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 11:18 PM
> To: Bulgrien, Kevin; giggzounet; address@hidden
> Subject: RE: How to disable the cvs versioning for a specific
> binary file inour program CVS repository
>
> 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 ;)

>From what has been posted on-list so many times, one might easily have
thought you agreed that CVS did not do this:

> -----Original Message-----
<snip>
> On Behalf Of Arthur Barrett
> Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 9:59 PM
<snip>
> Note: if you are using CVS 2.x or CVSNT, then I recommend you contact
> the vendor (March Hare Software) for support/training, CVSNT
> is NoT 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.

The original post did already make it quite clear this was dangerous,
but then there is no particular harm in underscoring that fact.

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