[wplug] version control for e.g. MS Word documents

[Duncan Hutty]

I have a client who wants to have a version controlled archive for a 
series of documents in MS Word format. Notwithstanding the fact that I 
believe this is a bad format for all sorts of reasons, I have been 
charged with fulfilling their desire.

At the mention of version control, I instinctively jump for subversion. 
However, I know that svn/cvs/whatever don't do so well with 
non-plaintext files. Presumably a very large proportion of the file's 
data changes for even small document content changes and this makes 
diffs difficult (and, although of lesser importance, swells the 
repository considerably). I wonder whether anyone has any experience 
with a version control system for Word docs. Does this not matter? Will 
it just work?

Duncan Hutty