Re: question on binary checkin

[Larry Jones]

Mariellen Puckett writes:
> 
> I'm running cvs 1.11.5 and when I checkin a .rar file and check it back out, 
> the file is
> corrupted and I can't open it up.  I checkin with -kb and it still doesn't 
> preserve it as
> an archive image.

Are you sure the file you're committing is correct?  What does "cvs log"
say about the file in the repository -- is it marked as binary?  If not,
you need to use "cvs admin -kb" to do so.  What does "cvs status" say
about the file in your working directory -- is it marked as binary?  If
not, you need to use "cvs up -A" to do so (after updating the repository
file).  Once that's done, a simple commit of the correct file should do
the trick, although you might have to force a commit if CVS thinks the
file is up-to-date.

-Larry Jones

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