[cvsnt] cvsnt for word doc version control

[Noah]

Luigi D. Sandon wrote:
>> wholly or partly binary, and CVSNT doesn't do version control on these 
>> sorts of files very well - it just keeps a fresh copy for each new 
>> version. It's not really CVSNT's problem - its the brain-dead MS
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> That's no longer true. CVSNT can store diffs of binary files too... -kB.
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Hi,

can you send me specific links that explain this process of storing 
diffs of binary files?  maybe a howto?

Cheers,

Noah


>> file formats that effectively cripple virtually any serious attempt to do 
>> proper version management.
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> Again, not true. It's a proprietary format, that's true, and complex enough 
> to allow for merging without its own editor. You would not be able to merge 
> a complex document even if it was in a open XML standard, without something 
> that can understand the format. Source code is far easier to manage.
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