Re: making CVS binary-safe

[Larry Jones]

Stewart Heitmann writes:
> 
> The current lore for CVS seems to be that
> CVS presumes all files to be text unless
> explicitly stated otherwise in 
> CVSROOT/cvswrappers.

That's because CVS is explicitly designed to work with text files.  The
binary file support, such as it is, was a tacked on afterthought.

> However, accidentally storing a binary
> file in CVS as text will corrupt that file
> and cause great annoyance to the user.
> This is a common bugbear with CVS.

And on some systems, accidentally storing a text file as binary will
cause just as much corruption.

> Better to reverse the sitution and have
> CVS presume all files are binary unless
> explicitly listed as text in cvswrappers.

Better to not store binary files in CVS at all.

-Larry Jones

Mom must've put my cape in the wrong drawer. -- Calvin