Re: RE: Working Copy On Shared Drive - Binary Files Only - Seeking a definitive answer

On Thu, 15 May 2008 17:44:30 +0100, "Richard Yale"
<Richard.Yale_at_uk.linedata.com> wrote:

>With a binary file I think you will loose the opportunity to merge
>changes,

TortoiseSVN does a good job of handling MS Word files.

>so only one person editing at a time or things go south quite
>quickly, and the changes might bloat the repository a bit as the full
>binary needs to be stored for each change.

Not true. Only diffs are stored for binaries -
http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#binary-files

Greg

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