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

[Teodorski, Chris]

wplug-bounces+teodorski=ppg.com at wplug.org wrote:
> 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

Does anyone know of a good howto on this?  I've never used subversion 
or any version control software for that matter and I'd like to start 
using it specifically for documents and the like.

Thanks,

Chris