True story: it took two months to explain to an IT department that XML serialization files should be flagged as binary to prevent SVN performing line auto-merge

True story: it took two months to explain to an IT department that XML serialization files should be flagged as binary to prevent SVN performing line auto-merges on them. Then another month to implement the change. And this was only for one sub-group. I think some of the problem is "People who still feel VCS is a valid technology choice probably shouldn't be trusted to make technical decisions."