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

Am 10.08.2007 um 20:40 schrieb rodgers38:

> --- 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
>
I have just uploaded a 3.3b1 release of MacCvsX to the sourceforge  
server. This release should allow you to enforce plain binary encoding.
You may want to give this a spin.

</jum>



 
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