10/3/02
2:15 PM

 

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Unix Tools for Graphics Professionals
 
   
  • Centralized file control
    • Both have benefits in different situations, but for binary files you want to use lock-modify-unlock
    • When comparing the file for commiting CVS uses a program called "diff" -- which can't compare binary files effectively
    • This means two things:
      • CVS can't tell you if your file's been changed by anyone else while you were working on it -- so you could overwrite changes
      • Because it can't save the differences only, CVS holds full copies of all the previous versions -- not that bad, but still icky
 
   
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