Re: Comparing files in Word

Stefan (et.al.),

2008/7/11 Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>:

> Paul wrote:
>
>> Hi, I was amazed to see that if you click on "Diff with previous
>> version" of a Word doc, that it opens up the doc in Word and launches
>> a comparison between the latest two version.
>> This is a wonderful feature, specially when you're using Subversion
>> for normal docs (not code).
>> There is a glitch tho, the revision considere Old is the latest one
>> and the one considered New is in fact the older revision. In other
>> words, it's telling me that 3 has replaced 4 and not the other way
>> round.
>> Am I doing something wrong or is this a problem with the system?
>>
>
> Actually, if I'm not completely mistaken, the diff is correct.
> Word just shows the diff 'wrong'. Ok, I admit that isn't a good explanation
> :)
>
> If you look at the 'merged' document Word shows you, you will see that it
> looks exactly like the 'new' file, but lines which were added in the new
> file are marked red as if they were removed, not added.
>
> If you would make Word show the diff in reverse, it would actually show the
> document as it was in the old version, not the new one.
>
> You can test this yourself if you like. The file
> C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\Diff-Scripts\diff-doc.js
> it the one which calls the word diff. If you change the lines 44/45 from:
>
> sBaseDoc = objArgs(0);
> sNewDoc = objArgs(1);
>
> to
>
> sBaseDoc = objArgs(1);
> sNewDoc = objArgs(0);
>
> you will see what I mean if you repeat the diff.
>

IIRC there have been reports earlier about the diffs not being correct, and
the scripts have been modified several times to accommodate for this.

Perhaps there is a difference in the way earlier Word versions used to
compare files that were passed on the command line?

-- 
Regards,
Jean-Marc
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