Re: [Gnu-arch-users] a new project

[Jan Hudec]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 15:42:51 -0700, Andy Tai wrote:
> Well, in a related note, are there any solutions to
> revision control of common documents (say these in the
> Microsoft Word format (now commonly accesible by free
> software) or in the new Opendocument format)?   If a
> revision control system can efficiently allow diff'ing
> of such documents in their native formats, and is free
> software, that will be extremely useful.  However, I
> am not sure of any that exists right now.

OpenOffice is able to diff documents. However, it can only show the
differences interactively (y marking them and/or walking over them). I
am not sure it could be used for reconstructing the other document
either.

The opendocument format is a zipped archive of some XML and other stuff
(images in jpeg or png etc.). An XML diff exists and the rest is just
expanding it to a directory for taking the diff. So writing a diffing
tool for it should not be all that hard. I am not avare that anyone did
though.

> --- Thomas Lord <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > One way to help advance the cause of distributed
> > revision control
> > is to facilitate a greater number of applications
> > that can make good
> > use of it.   In that direction:
> > 
> 
> Andy Tai, address@hidden
> Free Software: the software by the people, of the people and for the people! 
> Develop! Share! Enhance! Enjoy!
> 
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