Re: Add .rtf extension to TortoiseSVN Settings > External Programs

At 20:35 09.04.2007, Tobias Schäfer wrote:

>I'd prefer not to treat .rtf like .doc in this case because .rtf files are
>plain text and can be diffed with the TortoiseMerge.

Well, most of the changes are in the codes behind the scene and very often
don't reflect changes in text of interest. I tried to do it, but even
opening and then saving the file without any changes to the text will
trigger a new version and doing a diff makes most changes, even if only a
datestamp of when saving is changed. That is because only line breaks in
the real text is the place where line breaks occure, and it might be a lot
of "lines" in the browser that make up that real line.

I found it almost useless to use tools like Merge to see any differences,
the only use is as a storage container to distribute new version of file to
others, but not to find what changed since most in fact changes as I found it.

So a compare tool that filter off all behind codes, like in a .doc file is
of great help.

Alf Christophersen
http://folk.uio.no/achristo

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Received on Mon Apr 9 22:27:44 2007