Re: managing Office files in CVS: The short answer is yes, but the long answer is no. <grin> If I understand your interest correctly, the answer is definitely no. Details follow.
Yes, you can store Office files in CVS and get them back out, but you must tell CVS that they are binary files (-kb on add). You can not merge versions, get diffs, or pretty much do anything else except checkin and checkout. Furthermore, CVS will consume vast quantities of space storing many versions of an Office file because it has no efficient way of generating deltas between them, and Office files tend to change dramatically throughout for even small changes in content, in my experience. If you just want to version documents, check out the built-in ability of Office applications to maintain revisions within a single file. If you're just trying to include Office documents alongside another project that fits better with CVS, you may find CVS's support sufficient (I do that much myself). But if you want true version control of Office files outside of Office's own support, CVS won't fit the bill. On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 01:56:03PM -0700, Tennis Smith wrote: > Can cvs be used for change management on Windows Office (e.g. Word/Excel) > documents? Put another way, can these documents deal with having cvs > updating them in the repository? > > -- > Remove "-remove-to-reply" to respond to my email address directly. > > > _______________________________________________ > Info-cvs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs -- Doug Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dlee.org Bartimaeus Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bartsite.com "Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can. {Ralph Waldo Emerson} _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs