On Sat, 4 May 2002, Patrik Stridvall wrote: [...] > > CVS can handle binary files no problem. Can someone please refresh my > > memory on why storing binary _images_ in CVS is such a bad idea? > > I think it is because CVS can't store the diffs between binary files. > It stores the whole file even if only one byte change. So it takes > a lot of space to store the history of the file. > > Of course storing space is cheap nowadays...
But I believe it makes CVS slower too. Especially if you changed the file or if you 'touched' it by mistake. -- Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fgouget.free.fr/ Linux, WinNT, MS-DOS - also known as the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
