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

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 00:13:15 (-0700), Paul Sander wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
>
> Whenever a merge is required, check if the -kb keyword expansion flag
> is applicable.  If it is (via command line, .cvsrc, or RCS file, in that
> order), use an alternate merge method as described below.  Otherwise,
> retain existing behavior.

Although all well and nice for a very narrow range of applications, I
suspect if your proposal were implemented verbatim then all you'd end up
with is more confusion, uncertainty, and doubt.  The frequency of
incorrect "merges" would vastly outnumber the correct ones.


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