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- From: dhesi@rahul.net (Rahul Dhesi)
- Subject: Re: SCCS and binary files
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- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 20:54:02 GMT
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- In <BzC2EG.Bq1@me.utoronto.ca> mitu@me.utoronto.ca (Adrian Mitu) posts
- this inquiry to a bogus "comp" distribution:
-
- >Can SCCS handle binary delta versioning? If not can someone reccomend
- >a version-control system that does?
-
- The current RCS, in conjunction with the current GNU diff, can treat
- binary files as text files, and look for the next newline character to
- terminate the current "line", which can be an arbitrary block of binary
- data. Since linefeeds are randomly present in binary files, this
- typically results in some efficiency, provided your binary data are
- well-behaved and changes are localized to a few places.
- --
- Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>
- also: dhesi@cirrus.com
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