Basically what the title says: is it safe to store WordprocessingML documents in Subversion and perform conflict resolution on them? Not talking about OpemXML here - I'm wondering about Word's original single XML file format with binary image data, etc. all in a single text XML file.
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It depends by what you mean as safe? The data shoulnd't be corrupted. Of course anyone who has access to your SVN repository can see the file.
That being said, I would recommend against using SVN to store large data files with the intent of using it for finding differences. Although possible it's not really designed for that. You'll might also get some performance issues...
Stephane Grenier
2009-09-24 15:48:41
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You can store any type of file you want in SVN, but you’ll only be able to take advantage of diffing and merging if the files are plain text. You can always resolve conflicts manually.
Michael Hackner
2009-10-16 14:43:02
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Svn will safely version files that contain binary data if you mark them as binary. Of course if since they are marked as binary then you won't be able to do merges or conflict resolution.
Ken Liu
2009-10-23 19:16:44