4 May
2002
4 May
'02
8:22 a.m.
On Sat, 4 May 2002, Patrik Stridvall wrote: [...]
CVS can handle binary files no problem. Can someone please refresh my memory on why storing binary _images_ in CVS is such a bad idea?
I think it is because CVS can't store the diffs between binary files. It stores the whole file even if only one byte change. So it takes a lot of space to store the history of the file.
Of course storing space is cheap nowadays...
But I believe it makes CVS slower too. Especially if you changed the file or if you 'touched' it by mistake.
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