Re: In search of a version control system

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On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Drew Northup <n1xim.email@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Matthieu Moy
> <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> David Aguilar <davvid@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> I would advise against the file locking, though. You ain't gonna need
>>> it ;-)
>>
>> What do you suggest to merge Word files?
>
> If the files are in the DOCX format you can just expand them as zip
> archives and diff what's inside of them. The text in particular is
> stored as XML.

An XML diff means nothing to a regular user, and manually "merging"
this way can produce unreadable Words files. So no, it's still not an
answer.
-- 
Duy
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