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Re: bug in cvs annotate?
From: |
Paul Sander |
Subject: |
Re: bug in cvs annotate? |
Date: |
Mon, 3 Dec 2001 08:52:50 -0800 |
The last sentence indicates a reasonable requirement to have the
"cvs annotate" command do something reasonable with binary files.
Perhaps it could produce a diagnostic that says "Can't annotate a
binary file", which is much more reasonable than hanging.
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>> Matthew Versluys wrote:
>>
>> When running the 1.11.1p1 client and server and performing a cvs annotate on
>> a
>> binary file the NT command line client never completes the operation (or at
>> least takes much longer than I'm willing to wait) and has to be killed. If
>> you perform a cvs annotate on a folder which contains binary files the same
>> result occurs.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Matt.
>So don't do that. What type of non-mergable (binary) file can have arbitrary
>text usefully inserted into it? Help me understand this...
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