RE: Pserver on cygwin corrupts binary files

[Chuck Irvine <crirvine at everestkc dot net>]

>I'm using a cvs pserver on cygwin and I find that when I pull
(checkout,
>update, etc) binary file from the repository they come out corrupted, 
>i.e. can't be opened with jar, etc. Using the cvs command locally works

>fine. If I'm not mistaken, I've used used a cvs pserver previously 
>without this problem. Does any have any idea what my problem might be?I
>specify dos line endings when I set up Cygwin, if that makes any 
>difference.

>Yup. You didn't read the CVS manual. Particularly what sticky tags 
>are, and the reason of being of a certain CVSROOT/cvswrappers file 
>in the repository.

I don't believe that this is my problem. I'm having this problem with
jar files and I do have "*.jar -k 'b'" among other entries in my
cvswrappers file. Also, if this were the problem, I would expect to have
the same problem when going through cvs locally, but cvs local mode
works fine. The problem is just with pserver.

>Furthermore, using textmode mounts in cygwin main filesystem structure 
>is asking for trouble.

I used to use binary mode but I like to access my cvs workspace both
from the command line and using the built in client in my IDE
(NetBeans). I've been using textmode mounts for a very long time (3
years) without any difficulties.

Thanks,
Chuck





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