Re: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository? Why or why not

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, March 5, 2002 at 21:52:00 (GMT), Richard Caley wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository? 
> Why or why not
>
> In article <address@hidden>, Greg A Woods (gaw) writes:
> 
> >> The abiliy 
> >> to get a diff is nice but way, way down the list. 
> 
> gaw> Until/unless you understand the fundamental nature of RCS files and the
> gaw> fact that CVS is merely an RCS front-end, you won't even have a clue why
> gaw> you are so wrong.
> 
> I know it (even processsed them a couple of times), but it's
> irrelevent. Storing as diffs is just an optimisation, not a necessary
> feature. 

It might not be a "necessary feature", but it's the way RCS files work
today and in combination with the forced concurrent edits feature of
CVS, it makes it nearly insane to try to track non-diff-able and
non-patch-able files!

> Works better than the non existant alernative.

There's an almost inifinite number of better alternatives -- some of
them have yet to be written, of course, but you shouldn't let that stop
you.

> Feel free to propose an alternative, if it's better everyone will be
> happy to hear. 

I did already -- and I've used it flawlessly many times myself.  Others
have proposed almost exactly the same concepts too.  Multiple times.

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                                                                Greg A. Woods

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