Re: Third-party binary files, keyword expansion probs.

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, January 8, 2002 at 16:09:33 (+1000), Nicholas Catanchin wrote: ]
> Subject: Third-party binary files, keyword expansion probs.
>
> Greg: In a message you wrote once you said:
> "What you need to do is to _always_ check out your vendor branched
> modules with the (sticky) '-ko' option.  In other word you basically
> have to tell CVS to NEVER touch any keywords or their values in any file
> in your vendor branched module.  You really don't want to be messing
> with another project's keyword values anyway."
> 
> That is what I want to do - but -ko seems to corrupt my binary files.

Hmmmm.... no doubt you're using some non-POSIX-compliant client.  Don't.

(you might be able to use both '-ko' and '-kb', though in theory '-kb'
should imply '-ko')

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