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Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date
Nov 3, 2005, 22:02 UTC
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I'm currently about to abandon CVS for my website management, replacing it with git.

What problems, if any, will I have using git to manage the binary files for my site, like the custom icons? CVS is doing that just fine now.

I presume emailing diff-patches is out of the question, but if all I'm doing is git-push and git-pull (using the shared central repository model), and if I'm stupid enough to have a merge error it's OK to just blow up on a binary file, will everything else work fine?

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