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Re: improving subversion treatment of compressed XML/text file formats

From: <kmradke_at_rockwellcollins.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:27:40 -0500

"Henrik Sundberg" <storangen_at_gmail.com> wrote on 10/24/2008 01:44:03 PM:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Benjamin Smith-Mannschott
> <bsmith.occs_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Just one question about merging with ODT-like documents: not being
able
> >> to merge would leave things no worse than binary docs, right? By
this I
> >> mean that SVN does not try to merge changes in binaries currently.
> >
> > ODT-like documents are binary documents. Period.
>
> I disagree. Svn handles diffs in binary files. Compressed binaries are
> different.

Some interesting previous discussion on this topic:

http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-02/0180.shtml

Kevin R.
Received on 2008-10-24 21:28:16 CEST

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