RE: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository? Why or why not

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Tuesday, March 5, 2002 at 14:54:13 (-0600), Thornley, David wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository?    
>  Why or why not
>
> CVS doesn't handle non-mergeable files well, but it doesn't really do
> much worse than systems purposely designed for them.  It's less
> efficient, because it's optimized to handle mergeable files, but
> that doesn't mean it's unusable.

CVS can manage to keep track of some changes to some non-diff-able and
non-patch-able files, but only under a very few and very limited
circumstances.

Claming otherwise is like claiming you'll never need anything but a
hammer in your toolbox (and even though all your problems might look
like nails to you, they are not).

> What if there really isn't a right tool for the job?  Then what do
> you do?

Personally I would create (write, in this case) the tools I would need.

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