Re: CVS for documents.

2003-03-31 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi! I believe you are misunderstadning the point of the original article. What he wanted to know if version control merges, can be done to MS-Office documents. I.e: suppose we have a tree: A - B And a branch: A - C Can we combine B and C into a merged document B+C. While Subversion can

Re: CVS for documents

2003-03-29 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Caveat emptor: I don't have experience in saving Word docs in CVS, just with a) Word docs, and b) CVS. Tzahi Fadida [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what you suggest takes out all the point of using the cvs. for that, i don't need cvs. i could just save them on a joint share, and similar things

Re: CVS for documents.

2003-03-29 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Ilya Konstantinov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, the file would inflate as a result of storing the entire history so if you intend to pass it to someone else, IIRC there's an option to save a copy without the history. I don't know of any, I'll have to check. And if there is such an option, be

Re: CVS for documents.

2003-03-29 Thread Eli Marmor
Recently, subversion has become a serious competitor for CVS. It is Open Source, based on the DAV protocol, implemented on Apache with the Open Source mod_dav protocol, and together with the DeltaV extensions it offers a full networked versioning control environment. I wouldn't mention it, if the

Re: CVS for documents.

2003-03-29 Thread Eli Marmor
A minor correction: I wrote: Recently, subversion has become a serious competitor for CVS. It is Open Source, based on the DAV protocol, implemented on Apache with the Open Source mod_dav protocol, and together with the DeltaV extensions module, of course, and

CVS for documents.

2003-03-28 Thread Tzahi Fadida
Hi all, I wish to user cvs as a versioning system between developers for documents like: requirements documents, etc... i have windows workstations and 1 linux+cvs. the problem is, we use windows with office word 2000 to create the documents and i just can't find a satisfactory file format that

RE: CVS for documents

2003-03-28 Thread Tzahi Fadida
] Subject: Re: CVS for documents On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Tzahi Fadida wrote: the problem is, we use windows with office word 2000 to create the documents and i just can't find a satisfactory file format that will keep, for example, the tabbed numberings, and other simple formats if _all_

RE: CVS for documents

2003-03-28 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Tzahi Fadida wrote on 2003-03-28: what you suggest takes out all the point of using the cvs. for that, i don't need cvs. i could just save them on a joint share, and similar things like that. What i am seeking is using the power of cvs, to use, for example wincvs to update parts of the

Re: CVS for documents.

2003-03-28 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Friday 28 March 2003 14:06, Tzahi Fadida wrote: the problem is, we use windows with office word 2000 to create the documents and i just can't find a satisfactory file format that will keep, for example, the tabbed numberings, and other simple formats. of course the first thing that comes to