Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, July 10, 2001 at 11:15:23 (-0700), Bruce Hill wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
>
> The downside of this is that even though the file has been marked as
> binary and thus no changes can be merged, CVS will allow multiple users
> to get writeable copies of the file using "cvs edit".  When the second
> user tries to checkin, they'll find that they can't and thus they'll
> have to redo their work after getting an updated copy of the file.

If you even use "cvs edit" -- not everyone does, or needs to even.

You also can't easily merge branches if any changes have been made to
binary files on each branch....

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