[CentOS] unable to check in code to svn when files contain spaces or characters

Mon Jan 24 15:41:10 UTC 2011
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On 1/24/2011 8:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> svn is not meant to contain binary files (AFAIK Excel files are binary),
> there is no way to see a meaningful diff of these files. Furthermore,
> developers should be able to adapt to a naming scheme that avoids such
> problems.

Subversion actually does a pretty good job of versioning binary files, 
transmitting and storing deltas, although you are right that it can't 
show you a useful diff unless you can supply a suitable program for the 
operation.

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   Les Mikesell
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