Re: line endings in text files and -kb

[Larry Jones]

Ittay Dror writes:
> 
> If I use 'cvs admin -kb some_file.txt', does this mean that CVS stops
> storing diff of each commit and instead stores the whole file in each
> commit?

No, CVS always stores diffs, but diff usually doesn't work very well on
binary files.

> What happens in merge? Does it mean that CVS does no automatic merge
> for such a file?

CVS doesn't do *any* merging on binary files.  It simply reports that an
unmergeable file needs merging and leaves it up to you to merge however
you can.

> Note that the file is text, so that 'diff' (*nix diff, not
> 'cvs diff') will work on it.

If it's a text file, why do you want to mark it as binary?!?
-- 
Larry Jones

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