> Doug Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Is it a proven thing that CVS can corrupt a binary
> file if
> > no merges are tried and no CR/LF boundary rules
> are
> > broken?
>
> No.
I got it.
It will corrupt my files in the default
configuration after instalation, until I tell it
that .gif files are not text
> svn, monotone, gnu arch and others have all arisen
> more recently than cvs and try in various ways to
> address the legacy problems that cvs continues to
> have.
>
> > I think there are some binary diff algorithms...
>
> Indeed. Consider svn which uses xdelta internally.
>
> To be fair, CvsNt also has ways of dealing better
> with binary formats than the cvshome version.
> There is a hope that we can move toward merging
> the feature sets between those two major varitions
> of cvs over time, but it will likely take a bit of
> time as no one is being funded full time to work
> on just cvs development.
>
So I see there are many alternatives available, but
cvs has not changed. Looks like developers want to
offer their new products and not to support the
original cvs :( Very sad to find out about this
This is so strange and such a bad thing ...
> > >
> > The design itself does not needs litte
> > changes. cvs
> >
> > design can perfectly acomodate binary
> > sources. It just has to be done (or
> > implemented).
>
> Should I look forward to seeing your patches to
> help out on the project? They would be looked at
> with favor by all of your fellow cvs users.
Well I write PHP now. I think there's a long way
from web pages to a serious public application
I hope I'll study xdelta in the near future
Adrian Constantin
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