Guten Tag Robert Heller, am Dienstag, 2. Juli 2013 um 05:56 schrieben Sie: > Microsoft Word files are *binary* files. Older .doc files are Microsofts > propriatory format and .docx files are .zip archives containing .xml and other > things. You can't do a diff on these files. svn diff only makes sense on > *plain text files*, like C/C++ source code.
Of course those files can be diffed because what a diff is and how it is implemented simply depends on what to diff and one way to diff binary files is to let the applications which understand those binary files produce some kind of differences. This is exactly what Word, LibreOffice etc. are capable of and TortoiseSVN uses those features with some wrapper scripts starting those applications and tell them to diff the files. The diff is then produced by and within the applications on line and word basis. This works very well, even if svn itself can't diff those files. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Thorsten Schöning -- Thorsten Schöning E-Mail:thorsten.schoen...@am-soft.de AM-SoFT IT-Systeme http://www.AM-SoFT.de/ Telefon...........05151- 9468- 55 Fax...............05151- 9468- 88 Mobil..............0178-8 9468- 04 AM-SoFT GmbH IT-Systeme, Brandenburger Str. 7c, 31789 Hameln AG Hannover HRB 207 694 - Geschäftsführer: Andreas Muchow
