Re: Proposal to fix CVS binary file implementation

[Noel L Yap]

Yes, in fact, the real issue here is mergability, not binariness.  It can be
argued that PostScript and XML are not truly mergable by CVS standards even
though they are not binary.

I also think that the "reserved" edit patches are good enough to handle
non-mergable file formats.

The ideal would be if CVS allowed pluggable diff and merge engines, and adopted
the "reserved" edit patches.  Oh yeah, and the separation of physical filename
and archive filename that Paul had mentioned.

Noel




address@hidden on 2000.12.29 09:48:40

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Subject:  Re: Proposal to fix CVS binary file implementation




"Derek R. Price" wrote:

> There is the example of, say, GIF to JPEG.  That could be considered mergable
with
> a proper tool.

Perhaps *.doc and RTF is a better example.  What an automated merge tool would
do is
more obvious.

Derek

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