[ale] collaborative work environment

[Geoffrey Myers]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Geoffrey Myers 
> <lists at serioustechnology.com <mailto:lists at serioustechnology.com>> wrote:
> 
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>     We keep everything from C source code, perl source code, sql source
>     code, configuration files, images, Open Office docs, and tarballs in
>     subversion, nary a problem.  I'm curious what problem you ran into?
>     Aren't odt docs really compressed tar xml files or something of that
>     nature?  Curious why you would gzip it.
> 
> gzip is the compression format used. It's much harder to use a binary 
> format with subversion than a text format (like xml in the uncompressed 
> odt).

As I thought.  I thought he was saying that he gzipped the file again. 
We store all kinds of OpenOffice docs in subversion, never had any problems.

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