Re: Future CVS Development

[Mike Castle]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 04:20:03PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ On Tuesday, June 19, 2001 at 15:14:37 (-0400), Noel L Yap wrote: ]
> > What about files with textual content like Word files?
> 
> If it works well with unix diff and diff3 (and patch or rcsmerge), then
> it'll work well with CVS.  Of course if the application makes arbitrary
> or unnecessary changes then it will work a lot less well regardless of
> how well any two revisions can be diffed.

Heh.

Branch off, decided to use indent(1) on a bunch of .c files, and then do a
merge.

Or tidy on html.

Or fmt on readme.txt, .tex{,i}, or roff files.

It's not pretty.

mrc
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