Compare odt files in svn

Question

I use svn to store the revisions of my specification files, written with oowrite (OpenOffice.org). I cannot find the way to compare different revisions of my odt files. It complains their are binary.

Is there any tool or plugin to compare odt files stores in svn repository?

Answer 1

If you are on Windows you can use TortoiseSVN, which installs VBScript files for comparing and merging ODF documents as well as Microsoft Office documents.

You will find these scripts in the folder

C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\Diff-Scripts

and you can also modify these scripts to your needs.

Answer 2

Hello,

I'm just learning about ODF, so be gentle if I get this wrong... Your ODT file is really a (zipped) container of many different files. Perhaps you already know this, but this is the reason you cannot svn diff or even svn diff --force your ODT file.

I have Googled around and everyone seems to understand this limitation of SVN, even though I have found no explicit mention of it. Maybe the two links at the bottom of this thread will be of interest:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-151569.html

Thank you,
Zachary