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Re: Total Heresy: CVS & Windows MS Office Docs
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Total Heresy: CVS & Windows MS Office Docs |
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Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:38:18 GMT |
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> Yes, you can store Office files in CVS and get them back out, but you
> must tell CVS that they are binary files (-kb on add). You can not
Actually if you use -ko it will might work just fine, as long as you don't
cross between w32 and unix (in either direction).
Basically, any revision control system which doesn't try to do line-ending
conversion (and other such things) should work just fine: the files are not
exactly text, but a text-based diff tool will still get useful compression
(though merging will generate corrupt files IIRC).
A better alternative: don't use the Word format.
Stefan