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RE: reserved checkout
From: |
Noel Yap |
Subject: |
RE: reserved checkout |
Date: |
Fri, 1 Feb 2002 13:40:49 -0800 (PST) |
Your abject ignorance is pardoned :-)
uuencoding and uudecoding won't help anything since
CVS diffs and merges on a line-by-line basis. Doing
this with a uuencoded file will likely give you
garbage. IOW, the diff/merge problem has nothing to
do with a file's textness.
Noel
--- "EXT-Corcoran, David" <address@hidden>
wrote:
> pardon my abject ignorance on all of this...
>
> But could you use uuencode and uudecode? The deltas
> may be *HUGE* but it
> might be worth a lookit.
>
> --@@
> ~
> DavidC
>
> "The real truth of the matter is, and you and I
> know, that a financial
> element in the large centers has owned the
> government of the U.S. since the
> days of Andrew Jackson. History depicts Andrew
> Jackson as the last truly
> honorable and incorruptible American president."
> ~ President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, November 23,
> 1933 in a letter to
> Colonel Edward Mandell House
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matthias Kienle
> [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 12:04 AM
> > To: Greg A. Woods
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > Subject: Re: reserved checkout
> >
> >
> > > [ On Thursday, January 31, 2002 at 10:34:52
> (+0100), Matthias Kienle
> > > wrote: ]
> > > > Subject: reserved checkout
> > > >
> > > > What do I wrong?
> > >
> > > Don't use reserved checkouts with CVS -- CVS is
> the
> > "Concurrent Versions
> > > System"!
> > >
> >
> > I know cvs is a concurrent version system, but a
> new
> > requirement comes up in
> > our department to use in future only one version
> system. The
> > other version
> > system administrated binary files like word, excel
> and
> > powerpoint. CVS (and
> > other version systems too) can not merge binary
> files after
> > more than one edit
> > from several editors of the same version. The
> other version
> > system can do
> > reserved checkouts but it runs on a windows server
> and has no
> > command line.
> >
> > In a first test we used the editors and watcher
> function of
> > cvs, but the test
> > shows us it is not enough. I must often merge by
> hand two
> > versions and I can
> > say I hate it.
> >
> > I am a linuxer and I would hate it to explain my
> manager that
> > cvs does not
> > support reserved checkouts for binary files. I
> control all
> > web pages, server
> > configuartions and the total source code in a cvs
> repository.
> > I love my command
> > line for cvs and I love my CVS.
> >
> > I know I am sitting between two chairs.
> >
> > Matthias
>
>
>
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