Re: to see differences between versions.

On 2007-01-20 12:31:35, Alan Dayley wrote:

> raaj_sheker wrote:
>> i am using wincvs 2.0.2.4 version and i created my local PC as server.i
>> had taken one word document file and imported and checked out.later i
>> explore it and i had done some changes and saved that document.after
>> that i commited and i am getting a message that "CVS excited witth code
>> 0".and i am getting the versions as newversion 1.2 previous 1.1.but i
>> am facing difficulties to see the differences between those two
>> versions. can any one provide suggetions .. i am very thankful to
>> those... 
>> 
> Word document files are binary.  While CVS can version control them, it
> does not "know" how to record, check and display differences between
> versions of binary files.  As I understand it, CVS will just store a
> full copy of each version and not provide and difference reporting or
> merging. 
> 
> CVS is an excellent tool to version control text files.  It is not well
> suited to version control binary files like Word documents files.

Kind of. cvs(nt) alone is not well suited, but you can enhance it to make
it better suited.

On the client side, you can retrieve the two versions you want to compare
and then use either Word's own comparison feature or any 3rd party file
comparison tool that can handle Word files. TortoiseCVS for example lets
you configure a comparison tool. If you use one that can handle both text
and Word files, it does all this automatically and transparently for you.

AFAIK there's also a server side solution that allows you to add a plugin
of some kind to the cvsnt server that gets invoked for comparing the file
types you set it up for. Don't know much about this, and the cvsnt support
group is probably the best place to ask about this.

Gerhard



 
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