>--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[ On Tuesday, March 5, 2002 at 16:12:24 (-0800), Paul Sander wrote: ] >> Subject: Re: CVS and Jar files: Should you import Jar into the Repository? Why or >why not >> >> RCS stores binary files just fine, though perhaps not as efficiently as >> most ASCII files. All that is needed is that they come out bit-for-bit >> identical to what went in for any given revision.
>There are some corner cases where RCS does not do bit-for-bit binary reproduction. >Some of them are indeed irrelevant to the majority of file formats >people seem to use, but for some reason there are still an exceptional >number of complaints in this very forum of instances where people's >binaries have been messed up due to one problem or another. Most of them seem to come from people who don't set -kb from the outset. >> I've already proven that CVS can be modified to accomodate new data types >> by integrating new merge tools, and still retain its concurrent editing >> capabilities. >Proof is in the pudding. Where's your working, interoperable, code? See the following in the archives of this forum: Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> And it doesn't force anything with "patch". We've already had this argument; >> CVS falls back on something else if "patch" isn't available. >CVS doesn't "fall back" -- it backs out completely leaving the user in >the lurch, and giving little or no useful guidance to deal with the issue. Really. I thought it copied the entire file over network if it couldn't apply a patch. If that capability was removed recently then it should be restored, or the necesary tool should be librified and integrated. >--- End of forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
