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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