[..]I have a broad view of the same.CVS book is very good. Go through it[http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/]
One of the developer has made a statements as under : 1. CVS doesn't encourage to import DLLs (or any binary files), and warnsAlthough cvs works very well with text files, we can use it for binary files also. We are using it in a similar environment as yours.
that they can be corrupted during storage and checkout.
Note that for binary files like dlls (and mp3s!) add them as binary in wincvs or use -b in command line.
The problem with binary files is that, for each version of the same file you check in, CVS creates a new file. It will not append it to
the same file as it does for text files. So repository grows rapidly if you have too many binary files. Diff on these binary files may not so good
unless you use some third party tools. And lastly merge may not be possible on binary files. (Please note that in a development environment
we may have to use merge a lot of times)
2. The way Visual Studio .NET or the .NET is designed, to work with GUIFirst you need to import modules and then checkout modules. Add files, checkin files according to their format(text or binary) etc...
or Front-end forms, we have checkout multiple files, called source
files and resource files.
What exactly are u asking in second question?
I have read the docs at : http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.6/cvs_9.html#SEC80
But still, can anyone tell me whether cvs will have any problems in
handling dll's or binary files ? All the developers work on Windows 2K
with WinCVS as the client. Is anyone running the CVS+binary files ?
cvs handles dlls with above exceptions(i.e no diff, no merge). Look at igloo cvs client also.
Cheers. Mahantesh. --
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