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| author | Puneeth Chaganti | 2011-01-30 11:13:06 +0530 |
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| committer | Puneeth Chaganti | 2011-01-30 11:13:06 +0530 |
| commit | 94e5b845c3bd382a59f8f98caf60687d9e39efb3 (patch) | |
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vcs: Add note about binary files in handout
Added a note about using binary files in a version control system and
the diffs that would appear.
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diff --git a/versionControl/handOut.rst b/versionControl/handOut.rst index f326986..bb96c59 100644 --- a/versionControl/handOut.rst +++ b/versionControl/handOut.rst @@ -430,6 +430,10 @@ of changes made to the file. All the lines that were deleted are preceded by a ``-`` and all the new-lines are preceded by a ``+``. You can see that the ``&`` occurrences have been replaces with ``and``. +We should note here that, the ``diff`` wouldn't make much sense, if we had +some binary files like ``.jpg`` or ``.pdf`` files. We would see some +gibberish in the output. + Let us now commit this change. :: |