Re: Smoke, FUD (was Re: CVS corrupts binary files ...)

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, June 17, 2004 at 16:49:42 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ]
> Subject: Smoke, FUD (was Re: CVS corrupts binary files ...)
>
> If this is true, then we're in violent agreement.  But to date, you have
> argued that making the necessary changes to CVS to give better support
> for data types not handled well specifically by the diff and diff3 programs
> would break compatibility with RCS, which is demonstrably false.

Have you not looked at the content of an RCS file lately Paul?

RCS compatability is far more than just the adherence to the syntax
defined in rcsfile(5).  If the generic "co" program from the RCS package
cannot extract any and every revision of a file from a file claiming to
be an RCS file then that file is clearly not RCS compatible.

> How am I spreading Fear, Uncertainty, or Doubt? 

Maybe hypocrisy would be a better description of your approach to CVS.

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