RE: does cvs reduce size of executables?

[Wiest, Damian]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neelay Thaker [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 4:23 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: does cvs reduce size of executables?
> 
> Hi all,
> I have a working tethereal executable. When I try to add it 
> to the cvs repository, it's size gets reduced as shown below. 
> I even tried removing the current tethereal and then adding 
> it again, but when I execute a "cvs commit" the size of the 
> tethereal executable gets
> reduced-
> address@hidden tethereal]$ ls -l tethereal -rwxr-xr-x  1 
> neelay wheel 33277880 Jun 30 14:10 tethereal address@hidden 
> tethereal]$ cvs add tethereal cvs add: scheduling file 
> `tethereal' for addition on branch `THIRDPARTY'
> cvs add: use 'cvs commit' to add this file permanently 
> address@hidden tethereal]$ ls -l tethereal -rwxr-xr-x  1 
> neelay wheel 33277880 Jun 30 14:10 tethereal address@hidden 
> tethereal]$ cvs commit tethereal
> ** INFO ** commit not subject to validation RCS file: 
> /usr/cvs/tethereal/Attic/tethereal,v
> done
> Checking in tethereal;
> /usr/cvs/tethereal/Attic/tethereal,v  <--  tethereal new 
> revision: 1.1.2.1; previous revision: 1.1 done address@hidden 
> tethereal]$ ls -l tethereal -rwxr-xr-x  1 neelay wheel 
> 33277672 Jun 30 14:11 tethereal As seen above, the size of 
> tethereal goes down from 33277880 to
> 33277672 after I did a cvs commit.
> Any idea why this happens? This causes the new tethereal to 
> exit on "Segmentation Fault".
> 
> Thanks,
> Neelay.
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Did you remember to specify that this is a binary file when you added it?
http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/cvs-1.11.22/cvs_9.html#SEC79

-Damian



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