CVS'ers,
A binary file is a binary file. Period. It can
contain any sequence of characters, the encoding and interpretation of which is
solely understood by the application that created it. CVS should do
nothing in terms of keyword expansion or End Of Line conversion to modify a
binary
I agree in principle with your statements and your proposal, but I observe
two omissions:
1. There is a class of text file that is not mergeable, but requires newline
conversion. CVS does not currently support that class of file, but I
believe it should. Supporting that class of file would mean
From: "Paul Sander"
> I agree in principle with your statements and your proposal, but I observe
> two omissions:
>
> 1. There is a class of text file that is not mergeable, but requires
newline
> conversion. CVS does not currently support that class of file, but I
> believe it should. Supportin
Paul Sander wrote:
> I agree in principle with your statements and your proposal, but I observe
> two omissions:
>
> 1. There is a class of text file that is not mergeable, but requires newline
> conversion. CVS does not currently support that class of file, but I
> believe it should. Supportin
[ On Thursday, December 21, 2000 at 00:22:41 (-0600), David L. Martin wrote: ]
> Subject: Proposal to fix CVS binary file implementation
>
> A binary file is a binary file. Period. It can contain any sequence
> of characters, the encoding and interpretation of which is solely
>
"Greg A. Woods" wrote:
>
> [ On Thursday, December 21, 2000 at 00:22:41 (-0600), David L. Martin wrote: ]
> > Subject: Proposal to fix CVS binary file implementation
> >
> > A binary file is a binary file. Period. It can contain any sequence
> > of cha
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>[ On Thursday, December 21, 2000 at 00:22:41 (-0600), David L. Martin wrote: ]
>> Subject: Proposal to fix CVS binary file implementation
>>
>> If the user wants to change the "binary-ness" of a file, this s
From: "Greg A. Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [ On Thursday, December 21, 2000 at 00:22:41 (-0600), David L. Martin wrote: ]
> > Subject: Proposal to fix CVS binary file implementation
"Proposal to improve CVS binary file implementation" would probably
have
Paul Sander wrote:
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> >Think about it: You've got some changes you are about to commit that
> >include changes to a file which you've tagged as un-mergable (i.e. it is
> >a binary, opaque, file). As you run "cvs commit" you discover that
>
"Derek R. Price" wrote:
> There is the example of, say, GIF to JPEG. That could be considered mergable with
> a proper tool.
Perhaps *.doc and RTF is a better example. What an automated merge tool would do is
more obvious.
Derek
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Subject: Re: Proposal to fix CVS binary file implementation
"Derek R. Price" wrote:
> There is the example of, say, GIF to JPEG. That could be considered mergable
with
> a proper tool.
Perhaps *.doc and RTF is a better example.
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>Paul Sander wrote:
>> --- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Woods)
>> >Think about it: You've got some changes you are about to commit that
>> >include changes to a file which you've tagged as un-mergable (i.e. it is
>> >a binary, opaque, fil
Paul Sander wrote:
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> >Paul Sander wrote:
>
> >> Oh yeah, there's that problem where different versions might contain
> >> different types of data. Again, files containing different types of
> >> data should have different version histories. Unfortu
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:22:36PM -0600, David H. Thornley wrote:
> It could be worthwhile expanding the RCS
> format to do some better handling of binary files. It would be
> possible to improve the handling of binary files while keeping
> most of the code base.
The extension to the RCS format
Eric has some good ideas. I wonder if we could get Paul Eggert to add
support to RCS to directly fetch and set newphrases, in case someone needs
them someday.
However:
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- One can imagine adding a per-revision attribute that says
where in the sandb
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 10:56:52 -0800, From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Sander)
wrote:
>
> Also CVS currently can't handle the case where a single sandbox directory
> contains working copies of files collected from more than one directory in
> the repository. The Entries file would have to be modified
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