RE: reserved checkout

[EXT-Corcoran, David]

pardon my abject ignorance on all of this...

But could you use uuencode and uudecode? The deltas may be *HUGE* but it
might be worth a lookit.

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 DavidC 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthias Kienle [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 12:04 AM
> To: Greg A. Woods
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: reserved checkout
> 
> 
> > [ On Thursday, January 31, 2002 at 10:34:52 (+0100), Matthias Kienle
> > wrote: ]
> > > Subject: reserved checkout
> > >
> > > What do I wrong?
> > 
> > Don't use reserved checkouts with CVS -- CVS is the 
> "Concurrent Versions
> > System"!
> > 
> 
> I know cvs is a concurrent version system, but a new 
> requirement comes up in 
> our department to use in future only one version system. The 
> other version 
> system administrated binary files like word, excel and 
> powerpoint. CVS (and 
> other version systems too) can not merge binary files after 
> more than one edit 
> from several editors of the same version. The other version 
> system can do 
> reserved checkouts but it runs on a windows server and has no 
> command line.
> 
> In a first test we used the editors and watcher function of 
> cvs, but the test 
> shows us it is not enough. I must often merge by hand two 
> versions and I can 
> say I hate it.
> 
> I am a linuxer and I would hate it to explain my manager that 
> cvs does not 
> support reserved checkouts for binary files. I control all 
> web pages, server 
> configuartions and the total source code in a cvs repository. 
> I love my command 
> line for cvs and I love my CVS.
> 
> I know I am sitting between two chairs.
> 
> Matthias