From 94e5b845c3bd382a59f8f98caf60687d9e39efb3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Puneeth Chaganti
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:13:06 +0530
Subject: 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.
---
 versionControl/handOut.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'versionControl')

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. 
 ::
 
-- 
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