Ed Skinner wrote:
> I'm going to be working on some binary files (OOffice writer,
>presentation and spread-sheet files) along with some other developers. We're
>in widely separated locations (AZ, CA and MD) and the files will be on a
>machine to which we all have a "mount" (via VPN).
> It's been a while but I don't think CVS will keep us from editing the
>same file at the same time and, because the files are "binary", the merge
>tools won't help us.
> What's the best way to go? (So far we're all on Linux, at least.)
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
>
>
Okay first OO has its own version control (go to File -> Version). Next
OO doesn't save as a binary its really just compressed XML you turn
compression off at Tools->Options->Load/Save. (remember that if you
embed any objects that unlike MS office they aren't really made part of
the document there is just a link to the object). And lastly subversion
is supposed to work great with binary files. I'm using subversion now
but honestly haven't used it with binary files yet.
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