cvsweb patch (supports now annotate for binaries)

[VilleSkyttä]

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 11:27, Chris Straessle wrote:

> I've needed annotate support also for binaries. the reason:
> I make backups from several systems with cvs, but i alwas set
> the 'b' flag when i check in the files, beucase if I backup a
> script file, or any files with a cvs header, i don't wan't
> cvs to change the $id$ field. (is not really a change, its
> just a backup)

The -ko keyword expansion mode in cvs is for this purpose.

> if I wanna watch these files with the fine webinterface,
> cvsweb I can't get an annotate... so I've written a small
> patch for it. maybe you like it too and implement this in the
> next release of cvsweb. :-)

I'm afraid I don't like it.  Some effort has been put into cvsweb lately
so that it would do the right thing wrt. binary files; this patch would
essentially revert a subset of it, and in an uglyish way.

Use -ko, not -kb for files you want annotations for instead.  "cvs admin
-ko" should do the trick for already committed files. 

One more minor note in case you still need the patch:

>    print CVS_IN "UseUnchanged\n";
> +  print CVS_IN "Argument -F\n"; # to support annotate for binaries
>    print CVS_IN "Argument -r\n";

That shouldn't be necessary, see @annotate_options in cvsweb.conf
instead.