RE: how to checkin binary files

[Jim.Hyslop]

Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
> Specifically for MS Word, I ask myself what would be a better 
> use: Store
> the .DOC in CVS, or do the same with the .RTF.
There are a couple of advantages of storing RTF instead of .doc. You _might_
get slightly more efficient file storage using .RTF.

If you check in without -kb, then you could use the RCS keywords ($Id$,
etc.). On the other hand, users might be tempted to try to merge two
revisions of the .RTF file, and the results could potentially be quite
garbled.

-- 
Jim Hyslop
Senior Software Designer
Leitch Technology International Inc. (http://www.leitch.com)
Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (http://www.cuj.com/experts)