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Re: CVS is fine! I have some problem about it,help me please


From: Larry Jones
Subject: Re: CVS is fine! I have some problem about it,help me please
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 10:21:14 -0400 (EDT)

Li HaiChen writes:
>
>     1) I have a project that has to manage much of binary file,so can CVS 
> managed binary file perfectly?

CVS does support binary files, but it's support is very limited.  See
the manual for more details:

        <http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.6/cvs_9.html#SEC80>

>     2) If there are some of binary file, and most of them's size larger 
> than 10M bytes, so whenever commit the file to server by internet, does 
> only the change of the file( in bytes ) will be committed or completely of 
> file will be committed? 

CVS stores diffs, but how successful that is depends on the contents of
the file since diffs are line-by-line and binary files aren't
necessarily made up of lines.

-Larry Jones

I can feel my brain beginning to atrophy already. -- Calvin




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