http://www.onemanwrites.co.uk/2008/05/08/revision-control/ musings on technical communications Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:00:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.onemanwrites.co.uk/2008/05/08/revision-control/#comment-7187 Peter Martin Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:14:09 +0000 http://www.onemanwrites.co.uk/?p=125#comment-7187 Pretty sure he means exactly that. But if files are converted to MIF before checking in, you get the advantages of having much smaller diff files (and smaller SVN space) and if you then integrate something like WinMerge into the operation as you can with Tortoise SVN you can also inspect changes in MIF and do merges (provided you know what you're doing with MIF). There are some nice tools that will do the MIF conversion for you. Or of course, these days, you could also use XML... Pretty sure he means exactly that. But if files are converted to MIF before checking in, you get the advantages of having much smaller diff files (and smaller SVN space) and if you then integrate something like WinMerge into the operation as you can with Tortoise SVN you can also inspect changes in MIF and do merges (provided you know what you’re doing with MIF). There are some nice tools that will do the MIF conversion for you. Or of course, these days, you could also use XML…

]]> http://www.onemanwrites.co.uk/2008/05/08/revision-control/#comment-3324 Keith Soltys Wed, 14 May 2008 10:32:42 +0000 http://www.onemanwrites.co.uk/?p=125#comment-3324 Hi, Gordon. You say "As the file format FrameMaker (or Word for that matter) uses isn’t binary ... " Do you mean, "is binary"? Hi, Gordon. You say “As the file format FrameMaker (or Word for that matter) uses isn’t binary … ” Do you mean, “is binary”?

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