Re: SSD TBW

Don Y  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> One configures applications (CVS in this case) to use the extension
>>> of the file as an indication of how it should be treated.
>> 
>> You can do this, but you can also let it use the magic numbers instead.
>> Which is appropriate depends on your environment.
>
>And, its going to magically be able to compare JPGs, executables,
>.so's, etc?

No, but it (at least SCCS) will know to treat different kinds of file
differently.

There's no reason you couldn't have a jpeg-comparing function these days.
That's the marvel of the Unix philosophy... modularity.

>Play with something like Beyond Compare (Windows) and see how helpful
>file comparison can be.

>See my post regarding file equivalence and how "text" -- so common in
>UNIX systems (esp for configuration "databases") -- means so little.
>Yet, folks want to bias the VCS towards supporting that over all
>other "file types".

Well, yes, because in the Unix world most useful files can be treated that
way.  Remember that "version control" started out initially as "source code
control."
--scott
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