[Monotone-devel] Re: "monotone cat file" not binary save?

[Lapo Luchini]

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Nathaniel Smith wrote:
>Can any of the win32-clued people out there shed any more light on this?

Windows' CMD.EXE shell always had binary-safeness in its pipes.
I'm not quite sure of the current support of it, tough, as I'm a quite
happy CygWin user since ages (where most of the Windows problems are
solved or worked-around by the brillian CygWin developers ;)).

> If it's not inherently unfixable, though, we should fix it.

Mhh, dunno about this, but I could try asking in the address@hidden
mailing list, it would be a fairly off-topic message but I'm pretty sure
that there there is people with that know-how.

> "cat" is supposed to _be_ the easy way to retrieve old versions of a
> file :-).  In the mean time, the workaround is to do a checkout, like
> Richard suggested.

Another good idea I read in this thread was the --output option, that
would be useless in any case (to write a file directly, avoiding pipes)
and would work for sure even in "plain" Windows.

Anyway as an half-time Windows user and monotone new-found enthusiast I
plan to check this out a bit more deeply and maybe write a test-case.

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