[PD] .pd files in cvs

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Fri Jan 10 01:23:03 CET 2003


On Thursday, Jan 9, 2003, at 17:33 Europe/Vienna, Thomas Grill wrote:
>>
>> The problems start when you have to do a merge or if two people are
>> working on a .pd file at the same time. (and this gets merged later).
>> CVS fails while doing this, (it doesnt know about the importance of
>> object order and amount for the connect messages at the end)
>>  and this makes the .pd file unusable.
>
> Oh yes, that's the problem. Thank you for clarifying this.
> It's better to have a version collision error than an automatic merge 
> which can be overlooked.
> So i'll stick to my habit using binary mode.
>

FYI: I am pretty sure I set .pd files to be handled as binaries in the 
sourceforge repository for this very reason.  Check out 
CVSROOT/cvswrappers to be sure.

.hc





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