On Nov 26, 2007 4:34 PM, Erik Huelsmann <ehuels@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 26, 2007 10:48 PM, Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com> wrote:
> > "Trent Nelson" <tnelson@onresolve.com> writes:
> > > Fixed it, sorry for the noise (and the forced HTML formatting of this e-mail,
> > > thanks to my only e-mail access at the moment being via Outlook web). As it
> > > turns out, I had an '$Id: ... $' tag with a single colon in an example from a
> > > config file; reverting the contents within the tag to what it was originally
> > > allowed me to re-open the file in Word and add another colon.
> >
> > You may still have a problem waiting to happen, Trent.
> >
> > MS Word format is not a "plain text" format -- it is a binary format
> > that Subversion cannot parse (Subversion *can* parse plain text, which
> > is why svn:keywords is officially supported for plain text files).
>
> Karl, You're forgetting about our fixed-width keywords: $Id:: xxxxxxx $
>
> In theory, these should be compatible with Word, right?
>
> bye,
>
>
> Erik.
>
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Still only if that particular sequence of bytes does not occur
anywhere else. If it does it'll get replaced, but probably not with
good results!
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Received on Tue Nov 27 05:04:22 2007