RE: large binary file support in CVS

[Christopher 'The Homie Beard' Hemphill]

I'm using 1.11.22:

$ cvs -version

Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.11.22 (client/server)

The thing is that I only get this specific error on an import...  When I
try to do an "add" I get:

$ cvs add test.txt large.divx
cvs add: scheduling file `test.txt' for addition
cvs add: nothing known about large.divx
cvs add: use 'cvs commit' to add this file permanently


Well, of course it doesn't know about large.divx, I'm trying to add it!
Note that it does schedule test.txt for addition without a problem.




-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Jones [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 10:19 AM
To: Christopher 'The Homie Beard' Hemphill
Cc: address@hidden; Brandon Humphrey
Subject: Re: large binary file support in CVS

Christopher 'The Homie Beard' Hemphill writes:
> 
> We have a need to store and version Video Clips of up to 40 Gig in
size.

Why in the world would you store them in a source management system like
CVS?!?

> cvs import: cannot lstat file 4Gigger.iso: Value too large for defined
> data type

CVS should support large files if your OS supports them, and that
message implies that it does, so it seems like \something is going wrong
during configuration.  Please specify which version of CVS you are using
and post the configure output.

-Larry Jones

Nobody knows how to pamper like a Mom. -- Calvin