Microsoft has not released the documentation for their
binary format. From this follows that Subversion cannot
make any meaningful binary diffs that you may edit in
case of conflicts, unless someone has reverse engineer
the format, of course.
An option with newer Subversion releases is to use the
"lock" mechanism.
/Sigfred
Ted Shab wrote:
> Ben,
>
> Doesn't subversion do diffs? If so, then this is
> different than just search a file system...
>
> --Ted
>
> --- Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@red-bean.com> wrote:
>
>
>>On 10/7/05, Ted Shab <tshab@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>We are planning on keeping things like Word and
>>
>>Excel
>>
>>>files in subversion...we would like to be able to
>>>search for them...
>>
>>Please keep the list cc'd.
>>
>>How is your question different than "what tools can
>>be used to search
>>MS Office documents?" I don't understand how this
>>is relevant to
>>subversion...?
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