NAME

VCS::Lite::Element::Binary - Support for version control of binary files

SYNOPSIS

  use VCS::Lite::Element::Binary;

  my $bin_ele = VCS::Lite::Element::Binary->new('foo.jpg', recordsize => 16);

DESCRIPTION

This module is a subclass of VCS::Lite::Element to handle versioning of binary files

BUGS

Please post reports of bugs to rt.cpan.org

AUTHOR

        Ivor Williams   
        ivorw at CPAN (dot) org

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2004 Ivor Williams

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

SEE ALSO

VCS::Lite::Element, VCS::Lite::Repository

METHODS

See VCS::Lite::Element for the list of object methods available.

new

  my $obj = VCS::Lite::Element::Binary->new( $filename, [param => value...]);

Constructs a VCS::Lite::Element::Binary object for a given file. Note, if the object has an existing YAML, it will return the existing object.

If you want to create a new binary element in a repository, call new then add it to the repository.