[cvsnt] problems with edit/commit -c

[Jerzy Kaczorowski]

> You are right, but maybe not for the exe, it is usually the product of
> normal text sources. But a really commaon case is Microsoft Word
> documents that are in CVS. They are in as binary but people tend to
> think of them as text documents and so might start editing
> simultaneously. Here a smart merge would be nice, but lacking that
> reserved edits may come in handy.

An exe shoud never make it into repository and MS Word seems to have it's
own versioning and merge facilities ;)

Some other binary files like images are usually only modified by only one
person anyway and it should be handled by a proper job assignment
management. If you have so many binary files that it makes it impossible to
manage then you should consider to use a truly exclusive locking versioning
system, because CVS was designed for the type of source that can be merged.

The edit/watch system should be quite enought and I don't see why CVS has to
support something it was specifically designed to avoid ;)

Best Regards,
Jerzy


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bo Berglund" <bo.berglund at telia.com>
Newsgroups: support.cvsnt
To: <cvsnt at cvsnt.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 3:46 AM
Subject: Re: [cvsnt] problems with edit/commit -c


> On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 20:28:04 +0200, "Torsten Martinsen"
> <torsten at tiscali.dk> wrote:
>
> >> Seriously thought, there is no need to worry too much, people adjust
quite
> >> easily. After we removed locking from WinCvs there is really very small
> >> amount of complain or even interest in the locking. That indicates that
> >> people can deal with concurent development if they only get a chance.
> >
> >Again I agree, but it is hard to do concurrent development on an EXE
file.
> >I maintain that for *some* file types, exclusive locking makes sense.
> >
> >-Torsten
>
> You are right, but maybe not for the exe, it is usually the product of
> normal text sources. But a really commaon case is Microsoft Word
> documents that are in CVS. They are in as binary but people tend to
> think of them as text documents and so might start editing
> simultaneously. Here a smart merge would be nice, but lacking that
> reserved edits may come in handy.
>
>
>
> /Bo
> (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)
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