Alex Harford wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Timothy Weber wrote: >> Does fine with binary files, including MPLab and Eagle. And I know >> TortoiseSVN (the Windows client) handles diffing Open Office documents >> automatically. > > Hm.. I wonder if this is part of the server or client? AFAIK, OO docs > are gzipped XML files, so if the server unzips them and stores the > plain-text changes, that might be more efficient than binary diffs. > It would certainly be helpful when comparing revisions. Looks like part of the client. A random .odt file I just looked at has the "svn:mime-type" property set to "application/octet-stream", i.e., opaque binary. The client opens the the old and new docs, and talks to OO to generate the diff, is my impression. -- Timothy J. Weber http://timothyweber.org -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist