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Date:      Sat, 14 Jan 1995 04:29:14 -0800 (PST)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        roberto@blaise.ibp.fr, dgy@seagull.rtd.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: CVS stuff
Message-ID:  <199501141229.EAA07642@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <9501131848.AA10722@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 13, 95 11:48:40 am

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> > PLEASE DON'T COMMIT BINARIES INTO THE TREE.
> > 
> > A good definition of "not binary":
> > 
> > 	The file has no 0x00 or 0xff in it.
> > 	The last byte is 0x0a
> > 	diff(1) and vi(1) doesn't choke on it.
> 
> This definition would fit a uuencoded binary.
> 
> Is this acceptable?
yes, even preferred.
> 
> You could even put versioning in shell comments at the top.
good idea!
> 
> 
> The advantage to binaries in the tree is that it allows for inclusion of
> binary-but-not-source-redistributable code.

Yes, it's not the principle of binary files, just that cvs copes so badly 
with them...

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk>
TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
FreeBSD has, until now, not one single time had an undetected error. :-)



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