Countering the usual diatribe against binary files, was Re: cvs diff, proposal for change

Greg A. Woods wrote: 1. keep your binary files in a separate manually managed archive. ... "CVS supports binary files"?!?!?!? No, I don't think so. The '-kb' "sticky flag" is just a terribly bad hack that gets more people into more trouble with CVS than you could ever imagine because it gets mis

Re: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository?Why or why not

Hi We currently have about 350GB of 1MB binary image files stored in a CVS repository in order to keep track of who created them and when, and in rare circumstances when they are modified or replaced, who did that and when. The application has no need for concurrent merges, since the files are ra