[cvsnt] binary diff question.

[Tony Hoyle]

Martin Cole wrote:
> I am very exited by the binary diff work, looks really cool.
> 
> My question is, once it is deemed stable for release, will it require the
> files added via -kB still, or will it become the defacto standard diff delta
> process, and accept the addition via -kb.

I might have a server switch to enable it as default, but there are good 
reasons for keeping the old one around - it's quite good at text files 
that are stored as binary (eg. some people store .vcproj files this 
way), and things like annotate still work with it.

> The reason I ask, is that I have setup cvsnt on our server, and it is
> working very well, but our users are not at all familiar with cvs (or any
> version control software !! ) however they are happy with tortoisecvs doing
> the dirty work for them.

Give it a couple of months for the cvsnt versions to filter through to 
the frontends and there'll probably be a way of enabling it in a 
preferences dialog somewhere.

> Last question, if I add the folowing line to the cvswrappers file, will it
> override the tortoisecvs binary add command
> 
> *.gif -k 'B'

Not if Tortoise sends a -kb to override it - If the wrappers are set up 
I expect the standard add command would work, though I've not tried it 
recently.

Tony