Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Binary files in archives

[John Arbash Meinel]

Попков Александр wrote:

> Hello GNU ARCH users!
>
> I am wanted to add some MS Office documents
> into ARCH archive, and it updated so often. After every
> source update, developer must represent changes in
> task.doc.
>
> But in schema:
>
> One project <=> some developers
>
> Binary files would cause conflicts every time?!
> Which workaround you may advice to me?
>
> Thanks in advance!
Unfortunately that is the problem with binary formats. You cannot
extract the changes from the file.

I can think of a couple possibilities.

Save the files as .rtf files. These are formatted text, which should
mean that diff can extract changes. However, as the format might be
involved, I don't know if a fuzzy patch will work without breaking the file.

> ---
> WBR, Alexander Popkov.
My real recommendation is to use something better than .doc files. Such
as reStructuredText.
Also, if they did their commits with appropriate summaries, you can use
a Changelog instead. "tla logs -s" should provide a good start, but tla
also supports automatically maintaining a changelog file. You just need
the tag to start with "automatic-Changelog"

John
=:->

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