Re: Suggestions on modifications on commit

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:09:11AM -0500, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> Anders Engström <aengstrom@gnejs.net> writes:
>
> > Any comments on this?
>
> The subversion repository only stores "contracted" keywords, like
> $Id$. All keyword expansion is done by the client, in the working
> copy.
>
> So I don't think you'd need any magic scripts to modify word
> documents, other than inserting an $Id$ keyword (in the correct
> place!) the very first time the Word doc is committed to the
> repository. After that, the svn client will do everything for you
> automatically.
>

Interesting... In CVS word files are handled as binary files (and
keyword substitution is disabled - that's why we have the commitinfo
script). I know subversion is supposed to handle
merging/keyword-substitution in binary files as well - and if subversion
can handle keywords in MS Word-files our issues would disappear (a Word
template with $Author$, $Id$ etc. would be all that was needed).

Anyone with exprerience of svn/cvs keywords in binary files?

//Anders

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