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Aaron Kynaston wrote: > I've had a few times where I've had a small set of larger library files > that didn't make sense to keep a version, but I still wanted them under > a tag - it was frustrating to be wasting the extra space . .I understand > space is cheap these days, but my point is that I wanted CVS to be in > control of them, but still give me the benefit of storing it under a > tag, and know that any future changes to those files would only be > maintained at the latest revision of the file. . . That's rather hard to do, as you have to maintain both the head of every branch and version for every branchpoint just to keep an RCS file coherent. It'd be a fairly difficult thing to implement and get right. Binary deltas help a little, although they're far from perfect (I suspect the algorithm needs some tweaking anyway, as the resultant file size has crept up over time as I've fixed stuff). Keeping a completely unversioned file could be done, although you'd lose tags/branch support. > It sounds like this was something in CVSNT before, why was it removed? There's never been anything like it in CVSNT. Tony