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From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Drew Northup <n1xim.email@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
	David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>,
	Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
	Maurice Francois <francoismaurice2001@yahoo.ca>,
	"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: In search of a version control system
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:16:50 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8ASoaH40ScHwv1EB2kw8sxMh3oFb45s5shUPUmRUF7gRA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM9Z-nnQjhehJEpyhyTY=rsK_f=2gTOUMVTycn7-Lao8Gog0pA@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Drew Northup <n1xim.email@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Matthieu Moy
> <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
>> David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I would advise against the file locking, though. You ain't gonna need
>>> it ;-)
>>
>> What do you suggest to merge Word files?
>
> If the files are in the DOCX format you can just expand them as zip
> archives and diff what's inside of them. The text in particular is
> stored as XML.

An XML diff means nothing to a regular user, and manually "merging"
this way can produce unreadable Words files. So no, it's still not an
answer.
-- 
Duy

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-21 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-08 18:06 In search of a version control system Maurice Francois
2012-10-08 18:24 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2012-10-08 18:30   ` Matthieu Moy
2012-10-09  3:19     ` David Aguilar
2012-10-09  5:58       ` Matthieu Moy
2012-10-21 12:20         ` Drew Northup
2012-10-21 13:16           ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [this message]
2012-10-21 13:25           ` Sitaram Chamarty

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