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 23:22:10 (GMT), Richard Caley wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository? 
> Why or why not
>
> No, versioning is the ability to go back. Diffing the ability to
> compare. One can use diffing to optimise versioning, but either can be 
> done independently.

With RCS, and thus with CVS, versioning and diffing (and patching) are one.

> The same factors which makes (sane) files formats undiffable make them
> the data stored in them unlikely to be edited in parallel.

Of all the incorrect things you've said, that's the most incorrect.

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