Paul Sander writes:
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> The definitive RCS sources permit configurations that can either memory map
> files or use temporary files, depending on the capabilities of the system.
> Although CVS' "librified" RCS cuts corners to get the basic capabilities,
> it does little more than expose the comman
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>> 2) CVS can't automatically merge changes. This matters more or
>> less depending on (a) how frequently the files change (hence
>> the gif vs. spreadsheet discussion), and (b) how hard it is
>> to merge changes manually, or through se
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 06:20:51AM -0800, EXT-Corcoran, David wrote:
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> >
> > This probably is not the best argument for people who wish to store
> > binaries in CVS, though. In my case, I would *love* to not have .xls
> > or .doc files in my repository. So far, the farthest I've pushed is
>
>
> This probably is not the best argument for people who wish to store
> binaries in CVS, though. In my case, I would *love* to not have .xls
> or .doc files in my repository. So far, the farthest I've pushed is
> to get people off .xls and onto .xml ( w/ custom schema/stylesheets ).
I'm inter
> 1) CVS's handling of binaries is a bit fragile, in that it's
> fairly easy to accidentally lose the "-kb" setting. If that
> happens, subsequent commits will put garbage revisions into
> the repo (subsequent updates of older revisions, which were
> committed correctly, wi
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 11:09:36PM -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:59:01PM -0800, Rob Helmer wrote:
> > I agree with the rest, but can your describe how the "-kb" setting
> > can be "lost"?
>
> I floated a suggestion a while back that -kb should be a bit
> stickier; basi
Eric,
> I floated a suggestion a while back that -kb should be a bit
> stickier; basically, it should "trump" sources of -k options that
> would otherwise be higher priority. The idea seemed to meet with
> general (though not universal) approval, if I recall, but
> nobody's written the code. Ne
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:59:01PM -0800, Rob Helmer wrote:
> I agree with the rest, but can your describe how the "-kb" setting
> can be "lost"?
If you type "-k", intending to apply that to the
text files, but forgetting that there are some binary files in
scope. Say you want to use the "-kk" t
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 04:35:31PM -0500, Eric Siegerman wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:08:48AM -0800, Rob Helmer wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 09:05:29PM -0600, Pierre Asselin wrote:
> > > Rob Helmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > >Why do so many on the list poo-poo using bina
On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 10:08:48AM -0800, Rob Helmer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 09:05:29PM -0600, Pierre Asselin wrote:
> > Rob Helmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > >Why do so many on the list poo-poo using binaries in CVS?
To summarize, there are four issues (at least; if there are
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 09:05:29PM -0600, Pierre Asselin wrote:
> Rob Helmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> >Why do so many on the list poo-poo using binaries in CVS?
>
> Here's an excerpt from my cvswrappers:
> *.bmp -k 'b'
> *.ico -k 'b'
> *.lib -k 'b'
>
> So I do put bina
Rob Helmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Why do so many on the list poo-poo using binaries in CVS?
Here's an excerpt from my cvswrappers:
*.bmp -k 'b'
*.ico -k 'b'
*.lib -k 'b'
So I do put binaries in CVS, mostly when I don't have a better place
to put them. They tend not to
Hello,
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 10:37:40PM -0600, Pierre Asselin wrote:
> Janning Vygen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> >Am Montag, 11. Februar 2002 18:21 schrieb Matt Riechers:
> >> After seriously reconsidering the decision to manage non-mergable
> >> files with CVS,
>
> >Why shouldn't i do i
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