Re: Countering the usual diatribe against binary files, was Re: cvs diff, proposal for change

[david]

> On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 14:53, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > [ On Tuesday, September 9, 2003 at 10:10:46 (-0400), Tom Copeland wrote: ]
> > > Subject: Re: Countering the usual diatribe against binary files, was Re:  
> > > cvs diff, proposal for change
> > >
> > > Hm.  Do CVS branches not work right with binary files?
> > 
> > It depends on what you mean by "work".  Merging branches containing
> > binary files is one heck of a lot more work.
> 
> Cool, yup, right, merging binary files isn't going to happen. 
>
Isn't going to happen with any other version control system I know of,
either, which is why I don't see why CVS should be bad for binary
files.  It isn't going to buy you much over a simpler solution, but
I don't see that it will cost anything, assuming that CVS is already
set up.  I wouldn't use CVS just to store binary files, but I would
and have happily used it to store binary files associated with
text files.
 
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