Re: CVS is mangling some text files

Howdy - No responses seen for a day or so - please drop the issue  in 
gnu.cvs.help.  I will reload and submit on gnu.cvs.bug.


On 12/04/2010 02:54 PM, Harvey wrote:
> I just went to some lengths to import and update some code of mine into
> CVS. This is on a Windows Vista machine. CVS client 1.12.12 (client),
> 1.12.13 (Ubuntu server).
>
> There are about 90 files in the project. When I checkout the project
> files, there are 4 files that are mangled and I can't seem to get them
> unmangled:
>
> xxx/res/MFCPCons.ico
> xxx/res/MFCPCons.rc2
> xxx/resource.h
> xxx/MFCPCons.rc
>
> The .ico file is binary and correctly set up to be stored as binary in
> the repository. The other 3 are text. If I fix up the mangling and
> commit the files back to CVS, update leaves them alone but a checkout
> into a fresh directory gives the garbage stuff again.
>
> The mangling appears as "Asian" characters on every second line of the
> text files. For example, the file resource.h should be:
>
>
> //{{NO_DEPENDENCIES}}
> // Microsoft Visual C++ generated include file.
> // Used by MFCPCons.rc
> //
> #define IDM_ABOUTBOX 0x0010
> #define IDD_ABOUTBOX 100
> #define IDS_ABOUTBOX 101
> #define IDD_MFCPCONS_DIALOG 102
> #define IDR_MAINFRAME 128
> ...
>
>
> and what it appears as is:
>
>
> //{{NO_DEPENDENCIES}}
> ??????????????????????????????????????????????????
> // Used by MFCPCons.rc
> ?????
> #define IDM_ABOUTBOX 0x0010
> ??????????????????????????????????????????????
> #define IDS_ABOUTBOX 101
> ??????????????????????????????????????????????
> #define IDR_MAINFRAME 128
> ...
>
>
> Any ideas? I still have the original files and can recreate from them if
> necessary.
>

-- 
Harvey