--- "Greg A. Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It matters not what the Paul > Sander's of the world > might claim is possible -- I speak of what _is_, > right now, today.
What _is_ right now, today, is that many developers use CVS to manage non-diff3-able files. The proof is in the pudding -- CVS is _usable_ for such files, but it's not ideal. Have you ever used a ruler as a straight-edge? > You could do all of what any versioning tool does > with pencil and paper > alone, but these tools make such tasks much less > painful. They do much > of the accounting for you and prescribe a process > that makes remembering > all the necessary steps much easier too. And CVS accomplishes all this with non-diff3-able files (much better than paper and pencil, anyway). > And thus CVS was born with it's inherent design > feature that effectively > requires you to allow for the possibility of > concurrent edits. And so you can take care of this issue (ie possibility of concurrent on non-diff3-able files) with processes. > It is far easier than you might think. There's an > entire world of > alternatives out there. I think it's evident that none of them are satisfactory to at least some. Noel __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
