Content Management (was Anyone used Tortoise CVS with Frame Files)

[eric.dunn at ca.transport.bombardier.com]

Laura Lemay wrote on 03/16/2006 11:07:06 AM:
> My experience with MIF is that for the purposes of source code control
> it is the worst of both ascii and binary.  MIF files may be ASCII but
> they are really huge, and a significant part of the file is different
> between saves in FM even if you only make small changes. 

Which is why in my post I included:
>>Now if you were to save MIF files to a versioning system, it would be a
>>good exercise to see how much of the MIF could be eliminated before
>>committing to the versioning system.

The minimal MIF needed for a complete FM document is all that needs to be 
checked into any versioning system.

Removing all Template components, line breaks, unique IDs, and a whole 
slew of other data from the MIF file results in a much smaller and more 
appropriate versioning content.

My beef with FM is that you can't select MIF options when saving. But some 
PERL scripting or XSL and MIFML could take you a long way.

Eric L. Dunn
Senior Technical Writer

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