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

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 21:27:27 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
>
> According to your proposal, the user must take at least five steps
> to produce the same result.

I have no idea where you got that from -- but you're completely wrong.

> The gain here is convenience, and comfort in the knowledge that CVS won't
> produce corrupt files by applying the wrong merge algorithm to non-ASCII
> files.

The loss of your proposal is convenience and comfort!  It is too error
prone and too complex for any generic solution.

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