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> You are right, but maybe not for the exe, it is usually the product of > normal text sources. But a really commaon case is Microsoft Word > documents that are in CVS. They are in as binary but people tend to > think of them as text documents and so might start editing > simultaneously. Here a smart merge would be nice, but lacking that > reserved edits may come in handy. An exe shoud never make it into repository and MS Word seems to have it's own versioning and merge facilities ;) Some other binary files like images are usually only modified by only one person anyway and it should be handled by a proper job assignment management. If you have so many binary files that it makes it impossible to manage then you should consider to use a truly exclusive locking versioning system, because CVS was designed for the type of source that can be merged. The edit/watch system should be quite enought and I don't see why CVS has to support something it was specifically designed to avoid ;) Best Regards, Jerzy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bo Berglund" <bo.berglund at telia.com> Newsgroups: support.cvsnt To: <cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 3:46 AM Subject: Re: [cvsnt] problems with edit/commit -c > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 20:28:04 +0200, "Torsten Martinsen" > <torsten at tiscali.dk> wrote: > > >> Seriously thought, there is no need to worry too much, people adjust quite > >> easily. After we removed locking from WinCvs there is really very small > >> amount of complain or even interest in the locking. That indicates that > >> people can deal with concurent development if they only get a chance. > > > >Again I agree, but it is hard to do concurrent development on an EXE file. > >I maintain that for *some* file types, exclusive locking makes sense. > > > >-Torsten > > You are right, but maybe not for the exe, it is usually the product of > normal text sources. But a really commaon case is Microsoft Word > documents that are in CVS. They are in as binary but people tend to > think of them as text documents and so might start editing > simultaneously. Here a smart merge would be nice, but lacking that > reserved edits may come in handy. > > > > /Bo > (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden) > _______________________________________________ > cvsnt mailing list > cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook > http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs >