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Tony, Thanks for response's to these questions on binary files. In response to my question yesterday about binary files already in CVSNT, it sounds risky to run CVS update -kB on them? Is there a high risk that they could get corrupted or lose their history log? Thanks, John -----Original Message----- From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of Tony Hoyle Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 3:06 PM To: cvsnt at cvsnt.org Subject: Re: [cvsnt] Re: Keyword Expansion 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 _______________________________________________ cvsnt mailing list cvsnt at cvsnt.org http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook