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This is a feature request: For filetypes that CVS does not already know, it would be nice if one could set the ascii/binary commit type (-kkv, -ko, etc) *before* the first commit of a file. Or, if this is not possible, it would be nice to be able to specify that certain filenames get committed in a particular way. Right now there is the possibility to do this using file extensions (.cpp, .a, .exe), and this works very well for about 99% of the cases, but there are a few cases where this does not work -- in my case, most notably for "makefile"'s. Since the system does not recognize these as having a known file extension (because makefile has no extension), CVS always defaults to binary type on the first commit, even though it is my desire to have these committed as ascii files. So, every time I have a makefile, I must fist allow Eclipse's CVS to commit it as binary, and then I must go back and change the file type to ascii -kkv and then re-commit it again. This is not a major problem, but it is a continual annoyance. If I could either (a) tell CVS that "makefile" is ascii -kkv *before* I do the first commit, or (b) could add "makefile" to the list of known ascii file types, it would be much more convenient.
You can do it before committing by doing an "Add to Version Control" then a "Change ASCII/Binary Property" and then a commit. However, this is not much better. Ideally, the handling of unknown types would be integrated into the commit. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 16793 ***
