Absolutely not! Office files are more-or-less binary and can't be merged.
You'd corrupt your data.
If you check out a working copy, you must remember to lock the file before
editing so no one else can change it. If you edit directly through WebDAV
(e.g., you give Word or Excel the direct URL of the file in the
repository), WebDAV will lock the file for you, and unlock it upon close.
-- Keith
"Bryan D. Andrews" <bandrews@trendcore.com> wrote on 11/20/2006 01:53:00
PM:
> If 2 people are editing a word doc at the same time will Subversion
> merge them properly on commit? What about excel or powerpoint?
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charley Bay [mailto:charleyb123@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 6:29 PM
> To: dev@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Re: Document Management with SVN
>
> <snip, yes, svn for doc management>
>
> On 11/19/06, Bryan D. Andrews <bandrews@trendcore.com> wrote:
> > Great to hear. Can you give some details on your implementation?
> >
> > It would be great if there was a productized version of this that we
> > could buy (if anyone knows of anything)!
>
> We're a biotech company with heavy EE, ME, and software
> development. We cut the software department to subversion
> (mostly through tortoise, some command-line svn) and dropped
> our commercial version control tool. We also use subversion
> for document management (some MSOffice, cutting to OpenOffice,
> then lots of Wiki/Trac).
>
> When the EE and ME guys found out what we were doing, they
> cut over too -- CAD docs, office docs, text files, spread sheets, etc.
> They understand it (version control), and they love it (most of them
> didn't really do the heavy versioning that software developers are
> trained to do, and we just had to give them a quick orientation as
> to how it works). Mostly the EE and ME are using Tortoise-Svn,
> with no real problems.
>
> You *can* lock, but most of the time we don't.
>
> We have another commercial product for formal document control
> (assigns ID's, has its own digital signature process for new rev's).
> That system is pretty "heavy", though (higher overhead), but we
> accept it as the separation between "controlled" and "uncontrolled"
> documents (e.g., we're an ISO9001 and FDA cleared manufacturing
> site, it's a regulatory distinction).
>
> What might you want in a commercial product? We're finding
> it to be pretty good as-is. (I'm quite interested in your environment
> and issues -- technical, perceived, etc.)
>
> --charley
>
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