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Re: Merge of Word docs?

From: Luis Malheiro <luis.malheiro_at_rerum.com.br>
Date: 2004-01-30 19:38:52 CET

Brian Mathis wrote:

> Luis Malheiro wrote:
>
>> Simmons, Bryan wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, so one of the basic characteristics of subversion is that when a
>>> collision occurs with respect to two people checking in another
>>> revision
>>> at the same time the last person to check in has to manually merge two
>>> revs.
>>> How is this handled with Word files or graphics or some other non-ASCII
>>> file?
>>>
>> AFAIK, you would need a tool to make the merge. ClearCase has one for
>> MSWord. Maybe you could build one using MSWord macros.
>> The issue doesn't apply only to non-ASCII files, Rational Rose files
>> are ASCII encoded, but can't be easily merged without a tool called
>> Model Integrator provided by Rational itself.
>>
>> Luis
>
>
>
> Word actually has this built-in. In Word XP, look under
> "Tools/Compare and Merge Documents". But as far as svn integration,
> you're out of luck for now.
>
Does anyone know if it is easier to merge Open Office documents or even
RTF files?

Luis

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