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Subject:Re: CVS and Word docs From:Megan Golding <mgolding -at- secureworks -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:16 Oct 2002 10:47:29 -0400
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 10:08, cwebber -at- seagull -dot- nl wrote:
> - to diff the files, Word does a better job, since CVS does not.
That's correct. The 'cvs diff' command really only works on text files.
> - apparently when changes are committed once a day, the archive copy
> gets bigger and slower as well.
Hrmm...I don't think that's the case. What gets large is the directory
holding all earlier revisions of the file. Let's say you commit a 50
page Word manual on day 1 and continue writing and commiting for 10
days. The repository will store 10 versions of the manual. That means
your required disk space will mushroom with each day that passes (this
isn't the case with text files, by the way).
There are two ways to solve this growing repository problem:
1. commit to CVS only when you've reached logical stopping points.
Finishing a chapter, completing a draft...those sorts of events. Think
of commits as points of development you may want to visit again in the
future.
2. According to the information on http://ccvs.cvshome.org/fom/cache/37.html
you may want to clean out unnecessary revisions to prevent filling up
the server's hard drive.
*NOTE* When you add a binary file to CVS, be sure to use the '-kb' flag
so CVS knows its binary. Otherwise, CVS will assume its a text file and
it may mess your Word doc up. Here's a note about that: http://www.gnu.org/manual/cvs-1.9/html_node/cvs_81.html
Meg
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