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Re: Suggestions on modifications on commit

From: Anders Engström <aengstrom_at_gnejs.net>
Date: 2003-09-29 18:08:35 CEST

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:33:59AM -0500, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> Anders Engström <aengstrom@gnejs.net> writes:
>
> > > And Anders -- you will suffer the same problem in Subversion that you
> > > did with CVS. We don't have a way (yet?) to push back to the client
> > > the "actually committed" version of the file. For this reason, we do
> > > not recomment modifying to-be-committed files in the pre-commit -- the
> > > committer's working copy will be out of sync with the repository's
> > > reality.
> > >
> >
> > Any plans to implement something like this in the future?
>
> It could be done, and I think it would be quite useful, but I won't
> claim that there exist real plans to implement this. Then again,
> there is a whole world full of eager and able volunteers, and there's
> no telling what someone might contribute. {nudge, nudge}
>

Point taken <smile>.

I think the best way to go is to convince the users/management to drop
the evil MS Word format and use a better document format.. (DocBook,
OpenOffice, MS Word 10 (XML/HTML)).

//Anders

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