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

[Noel L Yap]

>[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 11:00:40 (-0400), Noel L Yap wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
>>
>> >Indeed as the above quoted documentation hints the initial introdcution
>> >of '-kb' to RCS itself was also primarily to deal with EOL issues.
>>
>> But what of your suggestion of using RCS to store binary files?
>
>Well, on Unix it works well enough and it's an available free solution.
>
>You still have to plan your use carefully, but at least with plain RCS
>you're less likely to get trapped into trying to automate your merges.
>(and of course rcsdiff alredy does the "right" thing and forces you to
>manually carry forward changes if you try to automate your merges).

Good, so the bext step is to build this into CVS :-)

Noel



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