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Siegfried Heintze wrote: > I'm using perl and a Microsoft Access Database to implement a web site. (Not > my choice -- but it pays the bills). > > I just added some new columns to the 10MB database. Now I'm using CVSNT to > store the perl code but not the Microsoft access database. > > Should I add the Microsoft Access database to the repository? Since we don't > have any customers yet, there is not much interesting in the database except > the metadata. I really don't want to store a new copy of the Microsoft > Access database every time I commit. If I add the database with the -kb > option, will it store a new copy of the database every time I commit the > sandbox (assuming the database has been modified -- which is extremely > likely)? > > I believe so. yes, you are correct > > This is a problem because if I ever change some field names or table names > in the database and need to role back, I won't have an old copy of the > database to match the code! > > Well, this problem is not unique to Microsoft Access. What do other folks > do? We have a "blank" data copy which we only use when we add/remove fields. This then is the one stored in cvs. For testing and development work, we use a copy of the blank data. -kz