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

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, July 12, 2001 at 15:59:25 (-0700), Lan Barnes wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
>
> You've made your position abundantly clear, and yet I still do not
> understand your ideas -- nor your vehemence. So what is left is that we
> disagree.

It's really very very simple.  Perhaps the problem is that these issues
are actually simpler than many people want them to be.  Various people
continue to try to suggest the impossible, and then refuse to accept the
plain simple facts.  You appear to be among them.  You cannot have your
cake and have eaten it too!  You can't have good support for change
management of non-mergable files in a version control system who's very
design and core functionality hinges on the ability to easily and
automatically do three-way merges betweeen revisions.  The more
unmergable files you add to a normal (i.e. a non-vendor-branched) CVS
repository, the more likely you'll run into increasingly difficult
problems.  The fewer unmergable files you have the easier it is to treat
them as special cases.

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