text_file_delta: Error: “foo.c” is not a ‘text file’: it contains a line exceeding 8000 bytes

Posted on July 6, 2008

This error message indicates that you have a line that contains more than 8000 characters. Unfortunately, the text_file_delta type manager cannot handle lines greater than 8000 characters.

You have two choices as to how to deal with this:

  1. Insert line breaks so the length of every line is less than 8000 characters.
  2. Modify the file type so it uses the compressed file type manager. The following command will accomplish this: "cleartool chtype compressed_file foo.c"Changing the type to compressed_text_file will not solve the problem since z_text_file_delta is based on the text_file_delta type manager.

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