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>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. Basically the use of "update -p" is the only way to get given revision of the file without making it sticky and creating the sandbox. WinCvs is using it for "external diff" and "retrieve revision" commands. Personally I would like to use the checkout or rather export for that, but it bails off saying that I have to specify the symbolic tag. I can not checkout or export the file specifying the revision (for no good reason IMHO), so we have only the "update -p" left. Alternatively it would be nice to be able to specify the output file for any cvs command so we would not have to perform all that trickery. Anyhow, I am solving the issue which originates from cvsgui protocol bug right now so the problem will be gone soon hopefully. Best Regards, Jerzy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Hoyle" <tmh at nodomain.org> Newsgroups: support.cvsnt To: <> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 5:28 PM Subject: Re: [cvsnt] update -p option over binary files > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > cvsnt mailing list > cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook > http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs >