Re: Problems updating rep

[Eduardo Mendes]

Hello

cvs up -A did the job. Many thanks for the help.

Regards

Ed



On Tuesday 12 April 2005 06:51 pm, Larry Jones wrote:
> Eduardo Mendes writes:
> > cvs add zzz.pdf xxx.doc yyy.xls
> > cvs ci -m "Adding doc and xls files"
> > cvs admin -kb zzz.pdf xxx.doc yyy.xls
> >
> > No problem so far, but when I try to cvs ci -m "Updating a file", cvs
> > returns:
> >
> > cvs commit: Examining .
> > cvs commit: Up-to-date check failed for `zzz.pdf'
> > cvs commit: Up-to-date check failed for `yyy.xls'
> > cvs commit: Up-to-date check failed for `xxx.doc'
> > cvs [commit aborted]: correct above errors first!
> >
> > What did I do wrong?
>
> You should have added the files in binary mode rather than adding them
> in text mode and then changing them to binary:
>
>       cvs add -kb zzz.pdf xxx.doc yyy.xls
>
> If you're working on a platform that doesn't distinguish between text
> and binary files, all you need to do is update your working directory
> appropriately:
>
>       cvs up -A
>
> If you're working on a platform that does distinguish between text and
> binary files, you'll still need to do that, but it will probably corrupt
> the files in your working directory so afterwards you'll need to replace
> them with fresh copies and commit them to get them stored correctly in
> the repository.
>
> -Larry Jones
>
> Mr. Subtlety drives home another point. -- Calvin