[cvsnt] Re: binary or text

[Tony Hoyle]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:54:15 +0530, "Jasmeet" <virdi at softhome.net> wrote:

>Hi all,
>    i think this is more of a generic question rather than windows related.
>Wot if i import all the files as binary and not text (yes even the text
>files ...) is there any overhead while processing binary files. Actually i
>could not get the point of segregating Text and binary, y can't everything b
>binary ? any ideas/pointers ?
>
In that case you'll lose the whole point of CVS - concurrent editing.  Binary
files are nonmergable, so you'll be thrown back on to enforced reserved edits
and might as well not have used CVS at all...

Tony