Re: [boost] binary file problem in cvs repository

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-03-18 07:11:53

At 08:19 PM 3/16/2002, Petr Kocmid wrote:

 >Hi there,
 >
 >the changed doc file libs/graph/doc/isomorphism_impl.pdf cannot merge 
which
 >is resulting to conflict in cvs update. The workaround is to erase 
manually
 >an old local copy, but more permanent solution is to mark the file as 
binary
 >in cvs repository.
 >
 >How could this be done quickly? Login to cvs, switch to appropriate
 >directory, then:
 >
 >cvs admin -kb isomorphism_impl.pdf
 >cvs update -A isomorphism_impl.pdf
 >
 >or, just in case no admin available:
 >
 >cvs remove isomorphism_impl.pdf
 >cvs add -kb isomorphism_impl.pdf
 >
 >I am posting this to list, not private because this kind of problem 
happens
 >repeating time to time again and I hope it could be helpful to have a
 >solution ready in archives.

Unless they are static and never change, it is much better to keep binary 
files out of the CVS repository.  Each new version of a binary file 
essentially requires archiving the entire file.  That markedly increases 
the size of the repository, which is a hardship for those to download the 
repository backup over the Internet.

--Beman