Re: Subversion & Word

Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> writes:

> I though that too. But I don't really know the internal structure of
> Word files. They might contain some pointers which are changed every
> time you add a symbol or paragraph. That's why I asked about
> experience with Word files. If noone tried, will have to experiment
> myself.

Word's format is pretty confusing, but in general, the text of the
document is mostly kept together in one chunk. (The rest of the
document is chock *full* of pointers and offsets and voodoo. The more
complex the document, the more voodoo.)

So, you'll get some compression of Word documents as new revisions are
made to the files. And compared to CVS... well, at least in
Subversion you get some compression. :-)

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Received on Wed Mar 5 16:32:13 2003