On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 06:25:34AM +0000, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> So you see, it's a fundamental misconception that the conventional
> metadata on the CVS version files is actually part of the versioned
> content.
True enough.
> If you want
> something to be versioned, you have to capture it in a file
> representation, and make sure that file is versioned under CVS.
Or convince CVS to capture it for you. That it doesn't do so
now, and that writing a script is a useful workaround, are not
valid arguments that CVS *should* not capture and version file
metadata. (There may in fact be valid arguments to that effect,
but these aren't among them.)
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|-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not
necessarily a good idea.
- RFC 1925 (quoting an unnamed source)
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