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

[Noel L Yap]

You can cry using the "cvs edit -c", "cvs edit -f"', and "cvs ci -c" patches
available at www.sourceforge.com under project RCVS.  I think I named them
reservation.diff.

Noel


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[ On Tuesday, July 10, 2001 at 11:15:23 (-0700), Bruce Hill wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
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> 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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