RE: How to treat XML files checked into CVS

[Bulgrien, Kevin]

> > No.  XML files are text files and should be treated as such to get
> > correct line endings.  If you really don't want merging, then use
> > *.xml -m 'COPY' instead, but merging XML usually works just fine.
> 
> They are text, but UNICODE, which CVS can't handle properly, 
> so you are 
> better off to deal with them as binary.

This is a generalization, and as such, just does not hold true for all
cases.  I happen to be working with UTF-8 files that do not contain,
and never will contain, problem characters... I check them in as text
with no issues whatsoever, and gain the advantage of being able to use
cvs diff to difference revisions and the working copy - I enjoy not
having to use yet another another differencing tool.

Kevin

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