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

2003-09-09 Thread Paul Sander
>--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Tom Copeland wrote: >> On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 12:12, Kaz Kylheku wrote: >> > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Tom Copeland wrote: >> > > On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 16:00, Greg A. Woods wrote: >> > > > I can import gigabytes and terabytes of binaries in

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

2003-09-09 Thread Paul Sander
>--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 12:12, Kaz Kylheku wrote: >> On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Tom Copeland wrote: >> > On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 16:00, Greg A. Woods wrote: >> > > I can import gigabytes and terabytes of binaries into CVS too, but no >> > > matter how much I try I'

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

2003-09-09 Thread Tom Copeland
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 13:06, Kaz Kylheku wrote: > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Tom Copeland wrote: > > Right... although in the case of 3rd party libraries, the line gets a > > bit blurry. If my project depends on, say, BCEL, I think it's > > reasonable for me to check the BCEL jar file into my module/lib

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

2003-09-09 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Tom Copeland wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 12:12, Kaz Kylheku wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Tom Copeland wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 16:00, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > > > I can import gigabytes and terabytes of binaries into CVS too, but no > > > > matter how much I try

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

2003-09-09 Thread Tom Copeland
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 12:12, Kaz Kylheku wrote: > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Tom Copeland wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 16:00, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > > I can import gigabytes and terabytes of binaries into CVS too, but no > > > matter how much I try I'll never be able to use branches meaningfully in

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

2003-09-09 Thread Kaz Kylheku
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Tom Copeland wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 16:00, Greg A. Woods wrote: > > I can import gigabytes and terabytes of binaries into CVS too, but no > > matter how much I try I'll never be able to use branches meaningfully in > > such a repository, > > Hm. Do CVS branches not wo