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Re: Documents in CVS

On Monday 27 October 2003 03:35 am, Price, Chris wrote:
> All,
>
> Apologies if this is slightly off-topic, but some of you must have come
> across this before:
>
> We are using a CVS repository (on linux) to store all our java source (and
> using the excellent TortoiseCVS client to access it from Windows).
>
> Currently all our technical documentation is written using MS Word. We
> would like to store the documentation in CVS as well, and ideally be able
> to track the changes in that documentation using CVS. This is not possible
> using Word .doc files, which needs to be treated as binary files in CVS.
>

I'd suggest DocBook (http://www.docbook.org).  The problems you describe is 
one of the many downsides to using a word processor with a proprietary file 
format.

Barry

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