[Cvsnt] cvs admin -o destroys repository

Tony Hoyle tmh at nothing-on.tv
Fri Mar 1 00:42:28 GMT 2002


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Johann.Gail at web.de wrote:
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> I use the cvsnt 1.11.1.2 (build40?) on a win2000 machine.
> If I use the command cvs admin -o to delete some outdated revisions, then all
> binary files in the repository are destroyed.
> I looked into the sorcecode and found the reason:
> The call for exec_diff() in rcs.c line 6362 never sets the --binary option. In
> this case the file is opened as a text file and gets shortened. The output of
> the diff is unusable.
> Where is the right place to send patches to?

Just post it here (unified diff, no attachments) or to tmh at cvsnt.org.

Tony


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