Re: handling of MsWord-Documents in CVS ?

[Eric Siegerman]

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:16:31AM -0400, Echlin, Michael wrote:
> The problem with binaries (and word files are binaries [...])
> [...]
> 6: hack cvs so that it uuencodes and decodes binary files on checkin and
> checkout.

This wouldn't help at all (the deltas would still be huge), and
it would probably be dangerous (you still couldn't do a
meaningful merge, but CVS might try anyway, and end up corrupting
the file).

Better would be to hack CVS so that it uses xdelta
(http://www.xcf.berkeley.edu/~jmacd/xdelta.html) as its
underlying storage format.  There was a thread here not too long
ago about the pros and cons of that.

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