[cvsnt] Re: one simple question about binary type

[Rick]

oki thanks!!!

"Glen Starrett" <grstarrett at cox.net> escribió en el mensaje 
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> Rick wrote:
>> one simple question, i know cvs means concurrent version system and it 
>> was made to work with text files (source code) ,but can i have a word or 
>> powerpoint file in a repository and work with this kind of files two or 
>> more people at time and then commit it? or cvs just work for plain text 
>> files?
>
> The trouble with that is that binary files can't be automatically merged. 
> I'm not sure if the new Office XML formats would help out, but it might be 
> worth checking out.
>
> OTOH, if you want to have someone manually merge the files later, you can 
> branch the binary file then have someone open both and copy/paste over the 
> updates from one into the HEAD version.  It's still a manual process, but 
> all the versions are tracked.
>
>
> -- 
> Glen Starrett