RE: reserved checkout

[Noel Yap]

Your abject ignorance is pardoned :-)

uuencoding and uudecoding won't help anything since
CVS diffs and merges on a line-by-line basis.  Doing
this with a uuencoded file will likely give you
garbage.  IOW, the diff/merge problem has nothing to
do with a file's textness.

Noel
--- "EXT-Corcoran, David" <address@hidden>
wrote:
> pardon my abject ignorance on all of this...
> 
> But could you use uuencode and uudecode? The deltas
> may be *HUGE* but it
> might be worth a lookit.
> 
> --@@ 
>    ~ 
>  DavidC 
> 
> "The real truth of the matter is, and you and I
> know, that a financial
> element in the large centers has owned the
> government of the U.S. since the
> days of Andrew Jackson. History depicts Andrew
> Jackson as the last truly
> honorable and incorruptible American president." 
> ~ President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, November 23,
> 1933 in a letter to
> Colonel Edward Mandell House
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matthias Kienle
> [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 12:04 AM
> > To: Greg A. Woods
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: reserved checkout
> > 
> > 
> > > [ On Thursday, January 31, 2002 at 10:34:52
> (+0100), Matthias Kienle
> > > wrote: ]
> > > > Subject: reserved checkout
> > > >
> > > > What do I wrong?
> > > 
> > > Don't use reserved checkouts with CVS -- CVS is
> the 
> > "Concurrent Versions
> > > System"!
> > > 
> > 
> > I know cvs is a concurrent version system, but a
> new 
> > requirement comes up in 
> > our department to use in future only one version
> system. The 
> > other version 
> > system administrated binary files like word, excel
> and 
> > powerpoint. CVS (and 
> > other version systems too) can not merge binary
> files after 
> > more than one edit 
> > from several editors of the same version. The
> other version 
> > system can do 
> > reserved checkouts but it runs on a windows server
> and has no 
> > command line.
> > 
> > In a first test we used the editors and watcher
> function of 
> > cvs, but the test 
> > shows us it is not enough. I must often merge by
> hand two 
> > versions and I can 
> > say I hate it.
> > 
> > I am a linuxer and I would hate it to explain my
> manager that 
> > cvs does not 
> > support reserved checkouts for binary files. I
> control all 
> > web pages, server 
> > configuartions and the total source code in a cvs
> repository. 
> > I love my command 
> > line for cvs and I love my CVS.
> > 
> > I know I am sitting between two chairs.
> > 
> > Matthias
> 
>  
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