=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Michael_H=FCttermann?= writes: > > what is the "official statement" concerning CVS' support of big binary > files?
You shouldn't do it. CVS was designed to be a *source* control system, not a generic configuration management system. CVS's diff algorithm doesn't work very well on binary files, so the repository file tends to grow quite quickly rather than growing slowly as it does for text file. And merging binary files is not possible, which defeats much of the purpose of using CVS. CVS 1.11 has a maximum repository file size of about 2GB on most systems, CVS 1.12 supports large files if the OS and underlying file system do (assuming the configure script can detect it). -- Larry Jones Something COULD happen today. And if anything DOES, by golly, I'm going to be ready for it! -- Calvin
