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

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 08:39:09 (-0500), Cameron, Steve wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data? 
>
> On the issue of whether storing binary files in CVS is a good
> idea, vs. trying to use "something else" in conjuction with CVS,
> my experience has been that putting the binary files in CVS works
> well enough, (apart from the above problem.)  The advantage,
> (having one tag that you can do a "cvs checkout" and get _everything_
> you need.)  outweighs the disadvantage, (that files are not mergeable)
> for us anyway.

That's a moot point Steve.  If your build system (makefiles, scripts,
source to tools, etc.) is also checked in to your CVS tree then it will
be tagged and you can "cvs checkout; make" and you'll still ``get
_everything_'' but you won't have *any* problems with binary files in
CVS!

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