Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, July 12, 2001 at 08:22:54 (-0700), Mike Castle wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
>
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 01:10:55AM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > there your build process can easily be constructes to always pull the
> > appropriate revision of a binary file into any given release build.
> 
> Except that that is a bit of a pain in the ass to support for remote
> access.

Why?  Surely you can think of other ways of copying files across a
network.  That's something people have been doing with networks since
they day they were invented....

> And you still have the same damned merging problem.  Now it's just down to
> one line of text representing what binary file to pull in during the build
> process.  The problem has not been solved doing this.

That's the point.  You push the merging issue out to a place where it
can be solved with more appropriate tools.

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