Transitioning from Clearcase to Mercurial (A developer's account)

[Snidely]

On Oct 11, 1:08 pm, Angel Ezquerra <angel.ezque... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 11, 2011 9:50 PM, "Marko Käning" <mk-li... at email.de> wrote:
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> > On Oct 11, 2011, at 9:46 PM, Snidely wrote:
> > > (I am very disappointed that Word and OO files aren't diffable, and
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> > Well, in TortoiseSVN there are scripts which do make Word files diffable.
> > I am not sure, but it could be that TortoiseHg uses or may use these
> scripts as well.

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> TortoiseHg does include the docdiff scrupts that let you diff word
> documents. It also includes am extension called zipdoc (?) which
> automatically and transparently unzips and zips openoffice and office 2007
> files when committing them to the repo, which makes their storage much more
> efficient, since these files date in fact zipped xml files.

TortoiseHg is detecting the BC3 I have on the system, and letting it
show me the document diffs.  I'll have to take a look at zipdoc.

Of course, that still leaves some other classes of binaries that
aren't easily delta'd, such as image graphics.  BC3 has some idea of
how to be diffing images, but that may not correspond to being able to
generate patches.


Thanks.

/dps