does subversion support word, excel, powerpoint docs? [duplicate]

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Does subversion support word, excel and powerpoint documents? "support" here means having history available and I can get old version out from the subversion. It will be nice if I can diff different versions. thanks,

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Yes, and TortoiseSVN supports diffing for Word and Excel really well, by invoking those app's native document comparison functions (not sure about PowerPoint).

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You can store binary files using svn. But you will not be able to diff them from the command line.

See How do I tell subversion to treat a file as a binary file for advice on the mechanics.