Ed Skinner wrote:
> I'm going to be working on some binary files (OOffice writer,
> presentation and spread-sheet files) along with some other developers. We're
> in widely separated locations (AZ, CA and MD) and the files will be on a
> machine to which we all have a "mount" (via VPN).
> It's been a while but I don't think CVS will keep us from editing the
> same file at the same time and, because the files are "binary", the merge
> tools won't help us.
> What's the best way to go? (So far we're all on Linux, at least.)
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
Have you taken a look at subversion? Binary is supposed to be a
speciality of subversion. I have not yet had a need to use it.
http://subversion.tigris.org/
I wonder if doing some exports to XML would help your situation? I have
seen some people save their OO Writer files as XML and it made it a
breeze to see the changes with ViewCVS. I'm no guru, but I scratch my
head as to how you can merge multiple diffs into a binary format and
still expect it to work. Anyone care to enlighten me?
Tony
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