[cvsnt] Re: surprising stubborn behavior on commit and unedit

[Olaf Groeger]

> Forget about 'edit' and 'unedit' on source files and just let CVS do
> what it does well...  For binaries make sure you're using 'edit -c' and
> 'commit -c', or (better) avoid storing binaries under source control if
> you can.
The idea behind "edit" was that some guys are afraid of merging and asked to 
be notified, when someone else is working on "their" files. So i setup cvs 
email notfication and told them to use edit. (Did i already mention that we 
used SourceSafe before ?)

> In the first case it sounds like the files weren't committed because they
> were identical to what was already in the repository.
They had a different timestamp, but were possibly identical in byte code. 
What is the definition of identical in cvs for binaries ?

Olaf