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
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 fo
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,
Danie
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 li
Paul wrote:
If they stored them as binary, then wouldn't be a little tricky to do
a diff on the document contents.
There is such thing as a binary diff. It may not be as good as a plain
text diff, but what else are you going to do when you are dealing with
images and sound files? I'd expect t
Hi,
Another person here who would like to be able to use OpenOffice with
version control tools like subversion (without requiring strict file
locking as we do at present). I thought it would not be a big deal to
do the following:
Write python script to unzip .odt file and pretty-print the xm
Oliver Goodman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Another person here who would like to be able to use OpenOffice with
> version control tools like subversion (without requiring strict file
> locking as we do at present). I thought it would not be a big deal to
> do the following:
>
> Write python script to un
Mathias Bauer wrote:
Oliver Goodman wrote:
Hi,
Another person here who would like to be able to use OpenOffice with
version control tools like subversion (without requiring strict file
locking as we do at present). I thought it would not be a big deal to
do the following:
Write python scrip
