On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 5:06 AM, ANTOINE-PRAVEEN-JANVIER Joseph -EXT <
joseph.antoine-praveen-janvier-ext_at_alstom.com> wrote:
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> We are the users of the *Tortoise *product and we need to know its
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> Please let us know if the application is compatible with MS Office 2000,
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Hi there. This is the *subversion* mailing list, not the tortoisesvn
mailing list, you should really ask over there. However, as a professional
multi-platform systems admin and decades long integrator of source control,
Microsoft operating systems, UNIX, and Linux since it came out, I I can
tell you that it's very powerful and very effective. The recent updates to
Subversion 1.7.x as its core have vastly improved its NTFS performance for
Windows systems, and been all around good.
The big booby trap I notice with all Windows/Subversion use is the
understandable desire to use "native" end-of-line characters to swap text
files gracefully between Linux, Windows, and MacOS. Don't do that: it can
bite you *VERY* hard if you access the same network filesystem, such as a
CIFS share, from each of those operating systems or with CygWin on Windows.
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It's kind of a strange question, because they're orthogonal. Subversion
works by saving files and a log of their changes. MS Office stores *binary*
files, and increasingly complex XML based and incompatible artifices of
proprietary incompatibility. So you can save them, and access them, but
preserving a list of changes in the document contents that would be
effectively reported as "differences" by Subversion is pretty impossible.
Do you understand how Microsoft's workd and Excel documents work, at all?
Then you know that the chance of being able to publish an organized and
legible set of differences between an older and newer modified document is
about the same chance as sneezing up your tongue. It could happen, if you
worked at it really hard, but it's not likely.
IE of various flavors works just fine to browse Subversion repositories
using HTTPS or HTTP access. It works even better with an intervening web
interface, such as 'viewvc'. For maintaining website content, the source
control system has little to do with making the content compatible with IE
of any flavor.
> Appreciate your support.
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> Thanks and Regards,
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> Joseph Antoine Praveen Janvier | Workplace project | ALSTOM Compatibility
> Cell | Office Phone +44 20 709 53688
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Received on 2012-01-25 02:25:11 CET