Re: how to force PlainBinary encoding on all binary files in MacCVS?

--- In [email protected], Jens Miltner <jum@...> wrote:
>
> 
> Am 24.5.07 um 15:54 schrieb mbarborak:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am having a bit of a problem administrating CVS for a handful of
> > CVS-naive MacCVS users. The problem I am having is that when these
> > users add binary files to CVS, MacCVS is occasionally using BinHex to
> > preserve the resource fork in the binary. The problem is that when
> > these MacCVS users then try to check out these files, some of them get
> > an error like this:
> >
> > cvsgui [checkout aborted]: Internal error: cvs_hqx.cpp, 497: Unknown
> > error: -50
> >
> > and my WinCVS users (less naive but also less patient) get BinHexed  
> > files.
> >
> > The work around is to check out the BinHexed file with WinCVS, change
> > the extension to .hqx, use something like WinZip to extract the file
> > from the archive and then check the file in with WinCVS.
> >
> > What I'd like to do is have all binary files on the Mac be encoded
> > with PlainBinary which will strip the resource fork. (This is fine in
> > our case as the resource fork for the file types we deal with has
> > never proven to be of consequence.)
> >
> > So one solution is to develop a list of all of our file types and have
> > all the MacCVS users edit their preferences to force PlainBinary
> > encoding on these types. This is of course an administrative problem
> > but maybe the only solution. So my first question is, can anyone tell
> > me if there is a file that I can setup with one MacCVS client with all
> > the file preferences and then copy to everyone else's machine to do  
> > this?
> >
> > The solution I would prefer would be to set the global encoding to be
> > PlainBinary but with MacCvsX-3.3-alpha2 the only options are BinHex
> > and AppleSingle. So my second question is, is there a way with this
> > version of MacCVS to use PlainBinary enoding for all binary files?
> >
> > Finally, I see here that it looks like someone has written some code
> > to add PlainBinary as a global encoding option:
> >
> > http://www.koders.com/cpp/ 
> > fid9CD8A66AC9547B6921732D5E48A417A361D6B416.aspx?s=mdef%3Ainsert
> >
> > So my last question is, is perhaps this developer monitoring this
> > thread and would they be willing to post the corresponding MacCVS  
> > binary?
> >
> 
> I'm not sure how well the current cvs tree will build on Mac OS, but  
> there's definitely a version in cvs that supports setting plain  
> binary as the default encoding type. If you have problems building or  
> running the latest version in cvs, you may want to look at the  
> Changelog and search for the last MacCvsX change, then use this date  
> to checkout a version that should build...
> 
> If you don't know how to build or don't have the tools to build, let  
> me know and I can send you a binary. I guess I should have posted a  
> new release on the sf site a long while ago, but when making a build  
> publicly available, I feel it should have had a certain amount of  
> testing and I just never got around to run it through a lot of tests.  
> (That being said, I'm using it daily, so it servers _my_ purposes ;-)
> 
> 
> HTH,
> </jum>
>

Hi,

I'm running into the same problem.  For over a year, MacCvsX has been adding binaries as 
plain binaries.  All of a sudden (I must have hit a switch by accident), it starts storing them 
as BinHex files which is not compatible with command line cvs.  And unfortunately, neither 
is AppleSingle which is the only other choice given in MacCvsX 3.3a2.

The chances of building any version of MacCvsX on my own sound grim - CW 8 is the 
requirement, I believe.  Instead, is there a way I can twiddle a bit in the MacCvs Prefs file 
to cause it to add binaries as plain binary?  Otherwise, I have to give up using MacCvs.

TIA,
Tim



 
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