version-control/collaboration on odf documents?

[Jamon Camisso]

On 06/15/2009 01:52 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Rajinder Yadav wrote:
>> I use Subversion (SVN) at work and home, the 2 front end UI clients on Linux are eSVN and RapindSVN.
>>
> There are many version control systems out there. But generally when
> serving binary files, they lose much of their benefit (such as diffs).
> Working with binary, most version control systems are little more than
> glorified archivers and checksum comparers.
>
> Now, the ODF file is a binary blob... but it's really just a zipped
> collection of a bunch of files, many of which are XML content and which
> *should* be able to benefit from text-based version control.
>
> So _my_ refinement of the original question is: Can any of the existing
> version control systems out there that are able to work with binary
> files that
> unzip into a bunch of files that can be stored in version control as text?
>
> (there are other file formats that could benefit from such a facility)

bsdiff the file with the original. Store a copy of the original plus any 
incremental binary diffs in a vcs of choice. But generally, a vcs is for 
source, not binaries, so..

Jamon
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