If they stored them as binary, then wouldn't be a little tricky to do a diff on the document contents. Assuming the OP is correct, there is already some functionality to find out the differences between two .sxw documents (assuming the text of the documents).
Obviously the support for .odt is a little slower. /paul On 2/2/06, Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't understand this deal about Subversion supporting or not > supporting .odt files. What support does it provide? Wouldn't it just > treat them like general binary files? I certainly don't expect any SCM > to keep patches of the XML inside the file. That would be rather difficult. > > Cheers, > Daniel. > > Paul wrote: > > An alternative would be to request that subversion supports .odt files... > > > > /paul > > > > > > On 2/2/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I have just started to play with subversion and TortoiseSVN. > >>TortoiseSVN supports diff for .DOC (MS Office) and .sxw (OOo 1) > >>files, but not yet for .odt files. TortoiseSVN can use an external > >>diff application. So can anyone point me to such an application. > >>I want to put my Openoffice documents in a Subversion repository, and > >>being able to get a diff between two versions of a document makes > >>things much easier. > > > -- > /\/`) http://oooauthors.org > /\/_/ http://opendocumentfellowship.org > /\/_/ > \/_/ I am not over-weight, I am under-tall. > / > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
