[linux-audio-user] Your synth wishlist?

[Stephen Hassard]

subversion might be a better choice if you have lots of binaries. It 
keeps state much better than cvs, such that a move of a repository 
folder will be remembered in the repository.

John Check wrote:

> On Friday 30 July 2004 01:27 pm, Dave Robillard wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 05:09, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> 
> -snip-
> -snip-
> 
>>(Thanks for that, by the way, I totally forgot about subpatches)
>>
>>
>>>To make it all perfect there should be a versioning system,
>>>but I guess that's a bit much to ask for :)
>>
>>Versioning as in CVS for patch files?  Well.. yeah, that is a bit much
>>to ask for. :)
>>
>>Put your patches in a CVS repository.  Done.  (They will be xml and CVS
>>will handle it nicely).  CVS is actually a lot simpler to use than many
>>people give it credit for, for simple things like this anyway.
> 
> 
> Heheh, thanks guy, I hadn't thought of that. 
> FWIW, one can handle binaries with CVS too. Files have to be flagged as
such 
> (or CVS has to be configured to associate file extensions for binaries)
and 
> it takes a lot more space than text, but it works.
> 
> So, how about having the "save" bits be smart enough to hand things off to

> CVS? Could be the mother of all patch librarians.