vcs: Add note about binary files in handout
authorPuneeth Chaganti <punchagan@fossee.in>
Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:13:06 +0530
changeset 139 d309b09761b9
parent 138 a201667fa696
child 140 67f06655e020
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
--- 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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