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 work right

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 such

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 I'll never be

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 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'll never be

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 into CVS too, but