> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noel L Yap [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 8:49 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Future CVS Development
>
>
> CVS only requires files to be mergable. This has a different
> meaning from
> requiring files to be non-binary.
>
> One thing that may be done is to add a hook for pluggable
> diffing/merging
> engines.
Now, pluggable engines would be truly cool! I know that one large argument
against CVS here (my office) was that it doesn't do "intelligent" things
with proprietary format non-mergable files (like MSWord documents), where
other source control systems can do (the counterexample was always
Clearcase). But if you could plug in a diff/patch tool for *.doc files,
(and perhaps a different diff/patch tool for *.ppt, another for *.xls) that
would make these files mergable, and thus behave sensibly in CVS! :)
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