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Re: CVS corrupts binary files ...


From: Greg A. Woods
Subject: Re: CVS corrupts binary files ...
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:12:15 -0400 (EDT)

[ On Wednesday, June 9, 2004 at 09:35:37 (-0400), Tom Copeland wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: CVS corrupts binary files ...
>
> On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 17:42, Paul Sander wrote:
> > Keep in mind also that there's a difference between "binary files" and
> > "mergeable files".  
> 
> That's a neat point.

Well, it's kind of a pointless point, neat or not.  The only thing
that's really important w.r.t. whether CVS can manage the file reliabily
and without headache is whether diff & patch can reliably copy changes
from one version of the file to another _and_ that any conflicts in
those copies can be detected and easily resolved by hand.

>  Most of my Java projects use 3rd party jar files,
> which are compressed tar balls, more or less.  And I certainly don't
> want to try to merge foolib-0.1.jar with foolib-0.2.jar when a new
> version comes out; I just want to put it in CVS so that it gets tagged
> and exported and so forth.

No, you REALLY DO NOT want (or need) to do that.  What a waste.

What you should do is treat the foolib product files for what they are
and to install them as products on your build machines in directories
named after their complete version-specific identifiers.

Then you need only program your build system to refer to the appropriate
directory for the appropriate components and if your build system is
anywhere half decent you'll simply check in the build system
configuration source file(s) and tag them.  Once you've done that then
you can check out any release of your source and type "make" and the
right components will be combined with your sources to create your final
product.

CVS is _not_ a build system.

CVS is _not_ a complete configuration management system.

Please learn to use the right tool for the job!!!!

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