Has anyone used Subversion for FrameMaker "document control"?

[quills at airmail.net]

As long as you use binary files you will not be able to get differenced 
files. Subversion is similar to CVS.

It handles text files very well and will difference them, just like CVS.

If you don't use text files, and all of your FM files are binary, then 
you will maintain a separate copy of each. Thus no space savings.

Scott


Syed.Hosain at aeris.net wrote:

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> It would be good to have a system that maintains the differences for me
> and minimizes the number of duplicate files.
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> As it happens, we are considering changing to use Subversion for our
> source code control system (see www.collabnet.com
> <http://www.collabnet.com>  for more info) in our software development
> group ... the earlier RCS stuff did not work well for me for FrameMaker
> documents.
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> Hence my questions:
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> 1.       Has anyone ever used Subversion for FrameMaker "document
> control" (to maintain multiple versions of documents) purposes?
> 
> 2.       How well does it handle "non-text" FrameMaker binary files
> (like .book and .fm files)?
> 
> 3.       How much did you like or dislike it?
> 
> 4.       Would you recommend something else (instead of subversion) for
> this purpose?
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