Simon Large wrote:
>>While I agree that there are zillions of potential file formats that
>>people might want to difference... in practice I suspect that only
>>"textual" documents are really suited to kind of comparison and merge
>>
>>
>that would make it suitable for Subversioning.Only pure text files can be merged using subversion/TSVN's built-in tools. And by merge, I mean sort out the effect of 2 people editing the same file at once. But Subversion does work with binary files just as well. A Word document, and I guess an OpenOffice document are binary files, even if they are rendered as text in a particular app. And of
>course they are not the only binary files that people control in SVN. It is, as I said, a universal versioning tool and there are people with hundreds of MB of binary data stored in their SVN repositories. The list below is almost certainly skewed by your own perception, and by what you want to use SVN for. I know it is heavily used for website source control, whether plain HTML or DreamWeaver output I have no idea.
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Without doubt my suggestions were coloured by my experience... however
my (possibly dubious) point was that the kind of files for which merging
makes sense are those which loosely represent a sequence of symbols...
That is obviously fine for ASCII source code / HTML etc... but, from an
end-user perspective, it also makes sense to have these features
formatted texts.
>>The reason I've been so gung-ho about OpenOffice is that I find the
>>2.0 beta's user interface favourable to all other wordprocessors I've
>>tried... The comparison of documents (if you ignore the fact that I
>>appear only to be able to compare two working copies from the supplied
>>gui) is particularly suited to revision control and I think it would
>>integrate fantastically with Subversion if a mechanism could be found
>>to invoke comparisons from the command line.
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>Then tell the OpenOffice people that!
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I've found an ancient open issue requesting this feature... but there
seems to have been nothing done so far.
>This is open-source, community-based development, and it works by lots
>of people making small contributions, both to the software and to the
>general pool of knowledge. I don't have a copy of OpenOffice or
>DreamWeaver, nor do I have the time to go researching how to configure
>them to work with SVN. I would hope that other people who do use them
>(like yourself) would contribute what they find. As no-one else has
>responded, I can only assume that no-one else has any experience with
>OpenOffice and Subversion, so it looks like you are a pioneer :-)
>
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I've also found an ancient suggestion that command line difference might
be possible using "a macro" but there is no further details... I know
as little about OpenOffice Macros as I do about Word Macros.
>BTW, you have more chance of prompting a response if you discuss things
>on the mailing list, so I am forwarding this to the list as well. If you
>don't want to subscribe, just request that people CC you in any replies.
>
>
Good plan - I went to private mail when I thought I was going
"off-topic" - but it seems we're still-on topic :-)
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Received on Fri May 13 13:07:11 2005