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Re: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository? Why or


From: Richard Caley
Subject: Re: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository? Why or why not
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 22:51:53 GMT

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

You confuse implementation with use. The fact that RCS happens to use
diffing to reduce disk useage does not mean the two are logically the
same. 

> > 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.

I have experience to back it up, you'll need to do better than
unsupported assertion to persuade me otherwise. Two people editing the 
same sound file, for instance, is rarer than two people editing the
same function within a file of source. In both cases the CVS merging
mechanism fails. This doesn't make CVS inapropriate for files of surce 
or sound files.

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                - RJC



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