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Article:		Version Control on Mac OS X, Part 2
Subject:		what about binary files
Date:		2003-08-11 17:52:01
From:		anonymous2
It would be great if you could walk through a tutorial to allow one to use binary files (especially nib files) with CVS. Also, a walk through for a local repository would be good.

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• what about binary files
  2004-02-24 18:21:48  narf_tm [View]
  
  
  There is a replacement for the default cvswrappers file included with Xcode "/Developer/Tools/cvswrappers". Replace the one in your CVSROOT with it. It has many definition for handling binaries correctly. It also defines scripts for CVS to use to wrap and unwrap .nib files on the fly for you.

• what about binary files
  2003-08-27 05:47:04  sboisson [View]
  
  
  I add some lines to config files in CVSROOT module.
  
  In "cvsignore" (to avoid putting PB backups and Finder files in repository):
  .DS*
  *~.*
  
  In "cvswrappers" (to treat IB/standard OS X binary files the right way):
  objects.nib -k 'b'
  keyedobjects.nib -k 'b'
  *.tiff -k 'b'
  *.gif -k 'b'
  *.pdf -k 'b'
  

• what about binary files
  2003-08-13 05:59:52  kom_14 [View]
  
  
  To set up CVS for local access, do the following:
  
  1. Open the Terminal application (located in /Applications/Utilities) and create a local directory to hold the CVS repository for your project.
  
  2. Set the CVS environment variable CVSROOT to the location of the local repository (the directory you just created). Doing so enables CVS commands to locate files under version control. The following command sets the CVSROOT environment variable to the correct location (for the tcsh shell).
  
  % setenv CVSROOT /Users/omalley/cvs-repository
  
  3. From the Terminal, run the CVS initialization command to create the CVS administrative files in the repository:
  
  % cvs -d /Users/omalley/cvs-repository init
  
  You only need to run the cvs init command once, before anyone on the system uses the new repository.
  
  For convenience, add the environment variable to your startup file. Doing so prevents you from entering it each time you open a shell. For tcsh shell, add them to your .cshrc file.
  
  I do not set CVSROOT in .cshrc. Instead, I have a file called .alias that is source by my .cshrc. This files contains all my aliases, including setting the repository location for different projects:
  
  alias cvs-proj1 'setenv CVSROOT /Users/omalley/proj1'
  alias cvs-proj2 'setenv CVSROOT /Users/omalley/proj2'
  
  This approach enables me to manually switch between multiple project repositories, something I do at work all the time.
  
  Hope this helps.