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[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

* Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com> [20060322 18:22]:
> On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 18:21 +0200, Marcus Sundman wrote:
> > > Why should the revision control system care what kind of
> > > file you're dealing with?
> > 
> > Because it's the one that distributes the files between users, and if it 
> > doesn't store the file type then the users would have to communicate 
> > this information by other means (email, IRC, web-page, ...) and that 
> > would be tedious and error-prone.
> 
> I must still be missing something.  Users have to use some external
> method to tell what type a file is today, because most filesystems don't
> associate type information with files.  Even MacOS has been distancing
> itself from typed files for years now.
> 
> So if I'm using any SCM that I know of, I'm going to be looking at the
> file name and extension, the output of "file myfile.name", or the file
> contents to tell me what type the file is.  Even if the SCM did store
> that information, what would you do with it?

I think we just found the main difference between SCM and CMS.

Thomas

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