On Sep 8, 2010, at 16:03, Ds Jstc wrote: > Initially I just wanted keyword substitution inside a .xltm file. But > really, Office 2007 documents are just zip files, and that got me thinking > that the problem is more general. > > Many of the best features of subversion only operate on text. Unfortunately, > there are tons of compound document formats out there that actually *are* > text, when you get right down to it. The text just happens to be compressed > and collected with some other stuff. > > So... what if a compressed archive was extracted during checkin, and > re-archived on checkout? This would > (a) more easily allow for text diffs between versions of documents. > (b) permit keyword substitution > (c) allow the choice of other, more effective compression (eg, bz2) on the > back end. > > Thoughts?
This has come up before, and it sounds like a useful feature to me. But I don't use these types of documents so I haven't had a need to pursue the matter.
