On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote: > Monotone can certainly store any files; but can it merge changes to > those files? > > That depends on the file formats. Monotone does change merging on a > line-by-line basis, Most word-processing file formats, for example, > are terrible at enabling change merging bcause they don't represent > newlines as new line characters, or because they use data compresssion. > Straight ASCII text, with newlines, is much better, and possibly also > Microsoft's rich text format (anyone know for sure about this one?) >
Really?? It would be a surprise to me that monotone's delta algorithm would only be efficient for text files, because I have been using monotone for many years on images and pdf files without problem regarding performance. I thought monotone uses xdelta, which is a binary delta algorithm that facilitates binary merges that can be easily applied to both text and non-text files. Am I right, or is monotone's delta algorithm only efficient for text files? Hugo > -- hendrik > >> >> > To do it I need the version software could understand the CAD >> > assemblies or (may be easier) the version software read in a txt file >> > the way the components are assembled. > > If it's a txt file, the kind that's memant to be hand-edited, theres > hope, What could get in the way is > (1) if the entire txt file is, say, just one line. > (2) if the entire file, as opposed to a few lines, changes wvery tine > the CAD software makes a small change in the design. > > Most revision management systems have the same limitations. > > With monotone, it's possible to write custom merge rules. That may be > complicated, depending on the file format. > > -- hendrik > > _______________________________________________ > Monotone-devel mailing list > Monotone-devel@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel -- Hugo -- Hugo Cornelis Ph.D. GENESIS-3 -- lead architect http://www.genesis-sim.org/ Neurospaces Project Architect http://www.neurospaces.org/ _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
