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> Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 14:55:31 +0200
> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> As far as I understand it is the .bat files that are special. The 
> makefiles are not.

AFAIK, yes and yes.

> Why then not handle the .bat file separately? Can't 
> they be stored as binary files in the repository?

Because we lose the diffs: CVS will not tell you differences between
versions of files that are stored as binary.