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

[Duncan Hutty]

Patrick Wagstrom wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 15:16 -0500, Duncan Hutty wrote:
>   
<snip>
> As long as it's set to binary in the VCS, it will just work.  I throw
> PDFs, pngs, all sorts of stuff at subversion all the time and it just
> works.
>
> Of course, the binary diffing usually means it just stores a new copy of
> the file, causing your data set to grow fairly fast if it's a very large
> document.
>   
I understand that it will _work_, but I wonder whether it will actually 
be useful. For example, how do you determine how far to go back if you 
want to  go back to a previous version? Do you rely on good commit 
messages?

Duncan Hutty