RE: Corrupt PDFs?

Everyone was really helpful, thank you. I looked at the old VSS repository
again and the files were corrupt there. Sorry if I gave anyone a good
scare! ;-)

Thanks again,
Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Mahel [mailto:andreas.mahel@ch.ibm.com]
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 1:27 PM
To: Brian Jackson
Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Corrupt PDFs?

Hi Brian,

as far as I know, subversion uses binary diffs anytime (also for text
files), so I would guess that subversion itself is not the one to blame. I
don't know about the script used, though.

On the other hand, VSS has a pretty simplistic approach to find out if a
file is "binary" or "text" (unless you specify this explicitly): It only
checks for ASCII-0 characters -- if it doesn't find any, it's "text".
This caught me badly once or twice.

So the question to you: are those revisions maye older revisions from VSS,
and (if yes) can you get the un-corrrupted file from the VSS repo?

regards,

Andreas

                                                                           
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Subversion appears to have corrupted PDFs I have stored in it. I've tried
to get old revisions but they are corrupt. It seems that when I imported
my VSS database, the svn client "guessed" that the PDFs were text, not
binary. Does this sound right? What is the solution, since I can't change
the property on old revisions? How do I get the old revisions uncorrupted?

Thanks,
Brian

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