Question About Subversion Filetypes

["Archer, Jennifer " <ja...@mail.smu.edu>]

Hello,
 
Can Subversion be used to version Oracle Forms, Reports, and SQL files?
 
Thanks,
Jennifer 

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Re: Question About Subversion Filetypes

[Ryan Schmidt <su...@ryandesign.com>]

On Mar 14, 2006, at 17:24, Archer, Jennifer wrote:

> Can Subversion be used to version Oracle Forms, Reports, and SQL  
> files?

Anything you can store in a file system, you can store in a  
Subversion repository. Well, almost. You can't store symlinks in it  
on Windows, and you can't store devices in it. But normal files and  
directories, no problem.

If these are well-behaved text files, then with Subversion you can  
merge changes between revisions of the files. If they're binary files  
and want to be able to merge changes, you'll need an appropriate diff  
tool programmed to know how to deal with that binary format. For  
example there is a binary merge program for Microsoft Word files.




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