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Ticket UUID: 63cc656c9dfef126817a50e207f1170bb6f8b979
Title: Option to force binary file commits
Status: Fixed Type: Feature_Request
Severity: Important Priority:
Subsystem: Resolution: Fixed
Last Modified: 2012-11-11 17:59:43
Version Found In: current
Description & Comments:
I am writing a Windows-based GUI front-end to your excellent DVCS. My aim is to allow "ordinary" users the benefit of revision management on any file they choose. I also have selfish reasons as a developer to maintain local changes for my employment (we use Subversion).

My front-end calls FOSSIL.EXE to perform the work and is working beautifully for basic usage. However, when attempting to commit binary files I need a way to force the commit without having to answer this question:

./pic.png contains binary data. commit anyhow (a=all/y/N)?


mistachkin added on 2012-11-11 03:28:58 UTC:
This can be bypassed by setting the "binary-glob" setting to include the necessary file types, either using the versioned setting file (i.e. and checking it into the repository itself, see "http://www.fossil-scm.org/xfer/doc/trunk/www/settings.wiki") or via the admin settings interface.