RE: Java class and jar files

[Tom Tromey]

Eric> Is there a *Java-related* reason not to put .class and .jar
Eric> files up in CVS?

The benefits of putting .class files into CVS are dubious.
Since CVS doesn't preserve relative timestamps on files, you can't
reliably use this as a way to check in precompiled files.  The
timestamps might be wrong (unpredictably), leading the Java compiler
to recompile them anyway.

Tom