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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
I bet he faxes his only copy of a doc, too, and needs to get it back .....
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You guys laugh--you know how many FAXED copies of our proof forms we get? Handwritten? Sheesh.
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Version control is always fun.
Programmers normally use version control software. When you first create a module of code, you check it into the repository. When you want to do more work on it, you check it out, make your changes, and check it back in. The version control software saves the differences between the original and your new version as a revision point. You can go back and get whatever state in the revisions you like by specifying the revision you are checking out.
Program code is plain text. Word processor files are a different matter. I had an exchange with a British university professor looking for ways to use Git (the most popular version control software) with Word documents. I told him it might be possible. Microsoft uses a variant of XML as the underlying data storage format, and XML is text based. If you can get to the underlying XML, you might be able to use Git for versioning.
He went looking for the XML and couldn't find it. No surprise - MS actually stores that stuff in a zip archive, and you would need to use an archive utility to open and extract the XML from it.
That he was tech savvy enough to want to use Git for version control, but didn't know the Word doc was basically a zip file was a little bemusing... 
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Dennis |
Well, we're devout about versioning, here. But I think you're failing to get into the spirit, Dennis.
Hitch