RE: What's a good versioning system for Office documents?

["Andrew Warren" <awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com>]

Edgar D' Souza wrote:

> Even now, I'm wondering how my suggestion of Subversion for the SCCS
> will be received.

Edgar:

Maybe I'm missing something, but if you're working with binary files,
Subversion sounds like the wrong tool unless you can somehow enforce
VSS-like file locking to prevent each file from being checked out by
more than one person at a time.  Concurrent editing depends on reliable
automatic merging of multiple authors' edits, and the merge tools all
work with lines of plain text; none of them merge MS Office documents.

-Andrew

=== Andrew Warren  - awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com
=== Synaptics, Inc - Santa Clara, CA
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