Re: How to treat XML files checked into CVS

[Yves Dorfsman]

Larry Jones wrote:
> Andy writes:
> > Is it good practice to add *.xml -kb to cvswrappers so that XML files
> > are treated as binary to prevent CVS from trying to merge xml
> > documents together?
>
> No.  XML files are text files and should be treated as such to get
> correct line endings.  If you really don't want merging, then use
> *.xml -m 'COPY' instead, but merging XML usually works just fine.

They are text, but UNICODE, which CVS can't handle properly, so you are 
better off to deal with them as binary.


--
Yves.
http://www.SollerS.ca