Re: How to treat XML files checked into CVS

[Paul Sander]

On Apr 15, 2008, at 4:48 PM, Arthur Barrett wrote:
> > > They are text, but UNICODE, which CVS can't handle properly, so you
> > > are better off to deal with them as binary.
> > Has anyone come up with a viable diff/merge tool for XML?
>
> I use WinMerge which works quite well and has both a 'XML' view mode 
> and
> a 'plain text' view mode, however it does not validate the resulting 
> XML
> to a schema.

Hmmmm.  I should have qualified my question:  Are such tools widely 
available on all of the platforms on which users are likely to run CVS?

If the answer is "yes" then there might be an argument to reopen the 
topic of representing file types in the repository, and applying the 
proper merge tools for the types of data.

Feasibility of this was demonstrated in the second half of September, 
2001 but was largely ignored.