Stewart Heitmann writes: > > The current lore for CVS seems to be that > CVS presumes all files to be text unless > explicitly stated otherwise in > CVSROOT/cvswrappers.
That's because CVS is explicitly designed to work with text files. The binary file support, such as it is, was a tacked on afterthought. > However, accidentally storing a binary > file in CVS as text will corrupt that file > and cause great annoyance to the user. > This is a common bugbear with CVS. And on some systems, accidentally storing a text file as binary will cause just as much corruption. > Better to reverse the sitution and have > CVS presume all files are binary unless > explicitly listed as text in cvswrappers. Better to not store binary files in CVS at all. -Larry Jones Mom must've put my cape in the wrong drawer. -- Calvin _______________________________________________ Bug-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-cvs
