Re: CVS for documents.

2003-03-31 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi! I believe you are misunderstadning the point of the original article. What he wanted to know if version control merges, can be done to MS-Office documents. I.e: suppose we have a tree: A -> B And a branch: A -> C Can we combine B and C into a merged document B+C. While Subversion can mer

Re: CVS for documents.

2003-03-30 Thread Eli Marmor
Shlomi Fish wrote: > I have had some experience with Subversion, and I can highly recommend it. > (caveat emptor: I did not stress test it). Subversion supports binary > files much better than CVS, but I don't know if it is possible to merge MS > Office documents using common version control opera

Re: CVS for documents.

2003-03-30 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Eli Marmor wrote: > Recently, subversion has become a serious competitor for CVS. It is > Open Source, based on the DAV protocol, implemented on Apache with the > Open Source mod_dav protocol, and together with the DeltaV extensions > it offers a full networked versioning cont

Re: CVS for documents.

2003-03-29 Thread Eli Marmor
A minor correction: I wrote: > Recently, subversion has become a serious competitor for CVS. It is > Open Source, based on the DAV protocol, implemented on Apache with the > Open Source mod_dav protocol, and together with the DeltaV extensions "module", of course, a

Re: CVS for documents.

2003-03-29 Thread Eli Marmor
Recently, subversion has become a serious competitor for CVS. It is Open Source, based on the DAV protocol, implemented on Apache with the Open Source mod_dav protocol, and together with the DeltaV extensions it offers a full networked versioning control environment. I wouldn't mention it, if the

Re: CVS for documents.

2003-03-29 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Ilya Konstantinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, the file would inflate as a result of storing the entire > history so if you intend to pass it to someone else, IIRC there's an > option to save a copy without the history. I don't know of any, I'll have to check. And if there is such an option

Re: CVS for documents

2003-03-29 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Caveat emptor: I don't have experience in saving Word docs in CVS, just with a) Word docs, and b) CVS. "Tzahi Fadida" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > what you suggest takes out all the point of using the cvs. for that, > i don't need cvs. i could just save them on a joint share, and > similar thin

Re: CVS for documents.

2003-03-28 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
On Friday 28 March 2003 14:06, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > the problem is, we use windows with office word 2000 to create the > documents and i just can't find a satisfactory file format that will keep, > for example, the tabbed numberings, and other simple formats. > of course the first thing that comes

RE: CVS for documents

2003-03-28 Thread Beni Cherniavsky
Tzahi Fadida wrote on 2003-03-28: > what you suggest takes out all the point of using the cvs. for that, i don't need > cvs. i could just > save them on a joint share, and similar things like that. > What i am seeking is using the power of cvs, to use, for example wincvs to update > parts of the

RE: CVS for documents

2003-03-28 Thread Tzahi Fadida
hi Fadida > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: CVS for documents > > > > On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > > > the problem is, we use windows with office word 2000 to create the documents > > and i just can't find a satisfactory file format that will ke

Re: CVS for documents.

2003-03-28 Thread guy keren
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > the problem is, we use windows with office word 2000 to create the documents > and i just can't find a satisfactory file format that will keep, for example, > the tabbed numberings, and other simple formats. if _all_ of you use office 2000 - then just s