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Re: copy-modify-merge with office

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 10:17:53 -0400

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 9:55 AM, lejeczek <peljasz_at_yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> gottcha... that would be amazing it it had it!
> I wonder if libreOffice handles collaboration better?
> many thanks

Last I knew, LibreOffice used a similar zipped XML format.

> On 12/08/14 14:26, Simon Large wrote:
>> On 12 August 2014 13:05, lejeczek <peljasz_at_yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>> forgive me for I'm a novice and courios
>>> but compare, this works, sill no elaborate way to merge?
>>> this zips tortoise can unzip, look into xml files and
>>> compare, why not merge I wonder?
>> TortoiseSVN does not unzip and look into XML files. It is Word itself
>> which is doing that. If you look at TSVN->Settings->Diff
>> Viewer->Advanced you will see that there is a vbs script set up for
>> that file extension, and the script calls Word with the appropriate
>> command line flags. There is no Word command to merge files.
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>> On 12/08/14 11:54, Simon Large wrote:
>>>> On 12 August 2014 10:45, lejeczek <peljasz_at_yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>> hi all
>>>>> wanted to ask if copy-modify-merge is valid concept for ms
>>>>> office under subversion?
>>>>> I see everybody says request lock for all office docs and I
>>>>> wonder whether it's all precaution or merge actually cannot
>>>>> be done on .docx and likes?
>>>> Subversion can only merge plain (8-bit) text files. All office docs
>>>> are proprietary binary formats and cannot be merged automatically, so
>>>> using locks is the only safe way to work with these files.
>>>>
>>>> Simon
>>>>
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