[cvsnt] update -p option over binary files

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Tue Apr 8 10:28:07 BST 2003


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On Tue, 08 Apr 2003 11:10:59 +0200, irodriguez perez <irodriguezp at cirsa.com>
wrote:

>
>Hi.
>
>I am using cvsnt 2.0.0 on the server and on the client. And WinCVS
>1.3.12.1.
>
>Recently i have tried to retrieve and old revision of a binary file
>and tried with the next command: update -p -r TAG binary.file (The command
>was launch through WinCVS, with the graph and "Retrieve revision"). But
>the output file (binary.file#TAG) doesn't was the real file, its size
>wasn't correct. So i tried a checkout command and then the file was 
>correct.

WinCVS can't checkout binary files using -p...  Not sure why you'd want to
though - -p is for displaying on the console... not something you'd want to do
with a binary file.

Just use checkout for that.

Tony



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