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Re: Correct options for export
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Eric Siegerman |
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Re: Correct options for export |
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Thu, 12 Jul 2001 18:11:46 -0400 |
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On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:09:03PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Thursday, July 12, 2001 at 21:52:42 (+0200), Ingolf Steinbach wrote: ]
> The problem is that you can't turn off the features in CVS that are hard
> (impossible) to use once you've added binary files to a repository.
What specifically are those features?
> This means that by definition you are in fact opening a vast can of
> hungry worms with sharp teeth for any future users of your repository
> whenever you introduce binary files to your CVS repository.
The two worms I can think of are:
- The -kb mechanism is fragile, and when it breaks, the file
gets corrupted. Well, that's what this thread is about
fixing.
- No reserved checkouts. That's clearly a problem for
unmergeable files (whether binary or the weird text formats
generated by some tools).
Please remind us why adding this capabilty to CVS -- BUT NOT
FORCING PEOPLE TO USE IT ON TEXT FILES -- would be so evil.
(Yes, I did an archive search. I was swamped by messages
where you assert that it's evil; the one or two where you
might have justified that assertion are lost in the
haystack.)
Are there other problems besides these two?
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|-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. address@hidden
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With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not
necessarily a good idea.
- RFC 1925 (quoting an unnamed source)