RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 11:00:40 (-0400), Noel L Yap wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
>
> >Indeed as the above quoted documentation hints the initial introdcution
> >of '-kb' to RCS itself was also primarily to deal with EOL issues.
> 
> But what of your suggestion of using RCS to store binary files?

Well, on Unix it works well enough and it's an available free solution.

You still have to plan your use carefully, but at least with plain RCS
you're less likely to get trapped into trying to automate your merges.
(and of course rcsdiff alredy does the "right" thing and forces you to
manually carry forward changes if you try to automate your merges).

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