[cvsnt] Re: Keyword Expansion

Trevor Leybourne Trevor.Leybourne at aderant.com
Tue Feb 8 21:18:00 GMT 2005


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Thanks for that Tony, 

That makes sense and unfortunately, we are developing in Oracle Forms so
about 50% of our code base is comprised of Binary Files (Oracle Forms
and Oracle Reports source modules are binary not textual). However, at
least we are going to get them into a source management system rather
than our current system, which I wont explain as it would scare you ;-)

Trevor

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Trevor Leybourne wrote:
> Tony,
> 
> I am wondering if I am missing something. You say that storing a PHP 
> file as Binary will cause problems. Why? If it is being stored as 
> binary is it not being stored byte-for-byte with no translation of any
bytes?
> Does this have any effect on other file types? 

Binary files are nonmergable, which means you can't realistically do 
parallel development on them, or use branches.   Also they don't 
translate line endings...  editing your file on Windows then checking
out on Unix will quite possibly cause the parser to barf on all the CRLF
pairs.

You should really only use binary for files that really are binary -
executables, graphics etc. where the nonmergablility is unavoidable.

Tony
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