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On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 07:43:55 +0200, Olaf Groeger wrote: > The idea behind "edit" was that some guys are afraid of merging and asked to > be notified, when someone else is working on "their" files. So i setup cvs > email notfication and told them to use edit. (Did i already mention that we > used SourceSafe before ?) You can use 'edit -c'/'commit -c' in that case. It's rather a suboptimal way of working but if you're stuck with it... There are other source control packages that do that kind of thing a lot better, though. >> In the first case it sounds like the files weren't committed because they >> were identical to what was already in the repository. > They had a different timestamp, but were possibly identical in byte code. > What is the definition of identical in cvs for binaries ? > The same as for text files - it does a diff and if there's nothing changed doesn't bother creating a new version. For binary files currently the check is just 'are these files identical'... it doesn't store binary deltas. Tony