Re: how to checkin binary files

[Sarah Gonzales]

On Apr 22, 2004, at 12:14 PM, Larry Jones wrote:

> Theoretically, the RTF file would allow CVS to perform its usual 
> merging
> of changes, but I'm not sure that Word's RTF generation is repeatable
> enough for it to actually work well.

We use the RTF format of MS Word with CVS frequently and haven't had 
any particular issues with it. CVS versions the documents just like you 
would expect - on the Macintoshes (pre Mac OSX), the files do lose 
their creator types and the users simply have to remember that they 
can't double click on them from the Finder - opening MS Word and then 
opening the files from within works like a charm - no problems for us.

hope this helps.
thx,