Re: Medium sized binaries, lots of commits and performance

[Paul Sander]

On Feb 9, 2005, at 8:53 AM, address@hidden wrote:

> Jesper Vad Kristensen writes:
> > I and the rest of us out here work with Oracle Forms and that means
> > binary source code.
>
> Are you sure there isn't a way to store them as text or to convert them
> to text?  Source control systems are popular enough that there almost
> certainly is.  Storing them in text form rather than in binary is by 
> far
> the best solution to your potential problem.

Jesper also wrote:

> We can't merge,
> granted, but with our external diff application we reap enormous
> benefits from using CVS. Even branching is manageable.

This appears to be a case where adding support for external 
datatype-specific diff and merge tools would be useful.

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