On 2011-04-30, Tim Chase <python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote: > On 04/30/2011 04:15 AM, Martin Schöön wrote: >> You guys are very code focused, which is natural given where we are. >> >> Having absorbed what I have seen here, looked a little at Mercurial, >> read a little on the webs of Fossil and Bazaar I start to think there >> is great merit in all this VCS stuff for other types of projects. >> >> At work my projects contain very little coding (some Python, some >> matlab/scilab perhaps) but a fair amount of CAD/CAE, written >> reports, presentations (OpenOffice and that other Office), >> spread sheets etc etc. A mixture of ascii-files and various >> proprietary formats most of which is stored in binary form. >> Some of the CAE-work generate pretty big files stored >> in dynamically created subdirectories. > > For non-text blobs, it takes a little bit of insight to get the > most out of them. For OpenDocument (Open/Libre Office > documents), they're zipped files containing text/XML which can be > diff'ed with more meaning. Usually there are custom filters for > git[1], Mercurial[2] and Bazaar[3] which will unpack the zipped > file contents before committing and give you more sensible diffs. > Likewise, for images (gif/jpg/tiff/raw/etc), there are > particular image-diff programs which make it easier to tell what > happened, as the textual diff of binary files is pretty useless. > However some images (such as .svg files) are XML/text inside, > and diff pretty nicely without extra effort. > > I can't speak to CAD/CAE, but it would have to be addressed on a > per-format basis in your given VCS. That said, you *can* store > the binary blobs in each, it's just not as useful without > meaningful comparisons. > > -tkc > > [1] > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2008/9/15/3305014 > > [2] > http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/HandlingOpenDocumentFiles > > [3] > http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/plugins/en/oodiff.html > All very useful information. Thank you for that Tim.
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