[cvsnt] Re: BUG: update -j merges binary files

Tony Hoyle tony.hoyle at march-hare.com
Sat Nov 26 13:54:15 GMT 2005


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Flávio Etrusco wrote:
> Hi,
> To end my round of complaints/reports regarding merging of branches,
> another odd thing I've noticed (since at least 2.5.01 AFAIR) is
> 'update -j' is merging binary files - either kb, kB or kBz.
> It's no big deal, but I thought I should let you know ;-)
>
There's nothing special about binary files in the merge process. 
They'll conflict if the files are different (possibly even if they are 
different version numbers), since they can't be patched.

Tony



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