The last sentence indicates a reasonable requirement to have the "cvs annotate" command do something reasonable with binary files. Perhaps it could produce a diagnostic that says "Can't annotate a binary file", which is much more reasonable than hanging.
>--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Matthew Versluys wrote: >> >> When running the 1.11.1p1 client and server and performing a cvs annotate on a >> binary file the NT command line client never completes the operation (or at >> least takes much longer than I'm willing to wait) and has to be killed. If >> you perform a cvs annotate on a folder which contains binary files the same >> result occurs. >> >> Cheers, >> Matt. >So don't do that. What type of non-mergable (binary) file can have arbitrary >text usefully inserted into it? Help me understand this... >--- End of forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
