Re: [Axiom-developer] SVN problems

[Ralf Hemmecke]

> However Tim did write:
>
> > I marked several hundred files as 'binary', including these
> > jpg files.
>
> I am not sure if he was referring to CVS or SVN but obviously
> these files should be marked correctly in both places. And your
> test shows that this is done automatically by 'svn import' without
> having to "mark" them. But I presume that Tim was trying to change
> the binary attribute of files that were already in SVN with the
> wrong attribute (having been copied from CVS). Perhaps to correct
> this problem it is necessary to remove these files first and then
> re-import them? Or to mark them properly in CVS and move them
> again?

The CVS manual says

   The `-kb' option available with some CVS commands insures that
neither line ending conversion nor keyword expansion will be done.

   Here is an example of how you can create a new file using the `-kb'
flag:

     $ echo '$Id$' > kotest
     $ cvs add -kb -m"A test file" kotest
     $ cvs ci -m"First checkin; contains a keyword" kotest

   If a file accidentally gets added without `-kb', one can use the
`cvs admin' command to recover.  For example:

     $ echo '$Id$' > kotest
     $ cvs add -m"A test file" kotest
     $ cvs ci -m"First checkin; contains a keyword" kotest
     $ cvs admin -kb kotest
     $ cvs update -A kotest
     # For non-unix systems:
     # Copy in a good copy of the file from outside CVS
     $ cvs commit -m "make it binary" kotest

Let's hope that one can trust that.

Ralf