Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ruminations on Arch Desiderata

[Paul Snively]

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Hi Stephen!

On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, at 11:18  PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Oh, that comment, plus your remark to Tom about "binary files" makes
> things clearer.  I didn't realize you didn't intend to actually do any
> revision control manipulations (diff/patch/merge) on these files, just
> store them in an arch archive.  In that case, just look in the vu
> module of hackerlab, and maybe the pfs-* files of tla/libarch.
> Wrapping your favorite libAppleSingle in the vu API should be
> straightforward, and accomplish that.
>
> I still find it hard to believe that ... is that what you meant?
I know it seems counterintuitive, but as Tom quite rightly pointed out, 
manipulating these files wouldn't make any sense. On the CVS side, 
where you have no choice but to make the distinction between text files 
and binary files anyway, the CVS clients that use AppleSingle just 
declare them binary and are done with it. The upshot is that what 
happens when you update your project comes down to deciding whether to 
overwrite your binary files with whatever's newer in the repository or 
not. In practice, this burden isn't onerous--so little so that I have 
MacCVSPro configured to always overwrite binary files with newer 
repository content.

So there's a vu API supported by the various pfs-* implementations, eh? 
That's very helpful--thanks!

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Best regards,
Paul

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