Re: Problem with using SVN wih docx files

Am 23.02.2015 um 18:57 schrieb Mahmood N:
> Hello,
> I am using TortoiseSVN and have successfully worked with text files for an creating revisions for an academic paper.
> Now I am trying to use it with a word document. I have created a repository and added a single docx file in the trunk folder. Then I follow these steps:
>
> 1- commit the empty docx
> 2- add a sentence and save
> 3- commit
> 4- add another sentence and save
> 5- commit
>
> Then I open the "show log" and select the two revisions and select "show differences as unified diff". But the opened window contains crappy character which means it didn't compare the texts inside the docx file.
>
> Is there any way to fix that? Am I missing something?

Fix: Not really, in theory maybe.

Yes. You miss something.
Binary files produce crappy diffs. docx is a binary format.

If you had a proper toolchain (a svn compatible patch/diff tool for docx
that understands the format) it could be made to work, but there is no
such tool. Word has its own tools to do diffs and revisions, you might
be better off using that.

Michael

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