# HG changeset patch
# User Puneeth Chaganti <punchagan@fossee.in>
# Date 1296366186 -19800
# Node ID d309b09761b997e5045415cb72112fd9d813c992
# Parent  a201667fa69605e1c2e48d55dd56bcd552f37047
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.

diff -r a201667fa696 -r d309b09761b9 versionControl/handOut.rst
--- a/versionControl/handOut.rst	Sun Jan 30 01:08:21 2011 +0530
+++ b/versionControl/handOut.rst	Sun Jan 30 11:13:06 2011 +0530
@@ -430,6 +430,10 @@
 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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