[PD-dev] Treating .pd-files as binaryin CVS

Eric Skogen eskogen at usfamily.net
Tue Apr 27 14:39:10 CEST 2004


Frank Barknecht wrote:

>Hallo,
>
>today I wanted to commit some rradical patch changes to CVS, when cvs
>bailed out with errors like: 
>
>  confused about file rrad.minipli.pd -- ignoring
>
>I vaguely remember, that Pd files maybe should be stored as binary in
>CVS. Reading a bit around about this I found, that it is possible to
>make *.pd files be always treated as binary by adding them to the
>"cvswrappers" file. So maybe some CVS guru can comment, if this would
>make sense?
>
>Ciao
>  
>
this is a total guess.. maybe it doesn't like the multiple dots? 
(rrad.minipli.pd vs rrad_minipli.pd)

i would say patches should handled just like any other source code, 
since they are plain text. by switching to a binary format, you would 
lose versioning control on pd patches. CVS can track ASCII changes, but 
IIRC cannot do anything with binaries save for archiving them (no merge, 
diff.. etc).

--e




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