Mike Little wrote:
Firstly, the subversion book is stored in just 16 files! That is each chapter and appendix is a single file. The largest of which is 300K. It will be impossible for multiple people to contribute to such large pieces of work with actual patches. As soon as the first couple of patches are applied the rest will be hopelessly out of date.
When you make a patch it includes which revision you're working off, and smart patch tools figure out how the lines have changed if there have been changes since then, right? I usually don't have trouble applying older patches to WP.
Which brings me to a second problem. Subversion does not to my knowledge diff xml files as xml files. That is, it does not understand the semantics of an xml file structure. It treats them as ascii records (lines) and that doesn't work for structured files. I am not aware of a third party add-on that will do the job either (subversion supports pluggable diff engines). At least not an open source one.
I'm not sure what's the matter with this, any different than using Subversion to manage a HTML file. Why does the diff engine need to be aware of the markup language?
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