Small review of question history. Boris Ilov has
suggested to try Redmine for BlackBox development, the idea
was supported by Ilya Ermakov and I have
tried to install and play with Redmine. Boris Ilov
has suggested to find ruby programmer (Redmine is made on Ruby) for writing the hook for solving
the problem of binary preview. That gives me idea, that the problem has ready solution and after googling I have found the
article about git converters. The main idea is that git before comparing or annotating can apply any converter to binary files. Then Roman Miro has
mentioned that such converter "odcread" had been already
developed.
To use "odcread" in local repository as binary to text converter:
1. Download
odcread, compile and install in folder /usr/local/bin/
2. In local repository make file .git/info/attributes with content
*.odc diff=cp
3. In file .git/config add next three strings:
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[diff "cp"]
binary = true
textconv = /usr/local/bin/odcread
So, it is impossible to use in GitHub, Bitbucket or Gitorious, because they did not allowing to execute any software on their (server) side.
I tried to use such converter in my server there Redmine is installed now. But solution was working very unstable, some documents
were not showed. First I have thought that the problem is in charsets and make
parsing scripts for cutting them out, but this did not give expected results. It had take a month to find that the
problem in Apache2 Phusion Passenger module. Thanks to Roman for suggested alternative, after I have set up Unicoron server, the problem is over.
The technical summary of redmine.molpit.com is
here.
Redmine now is version 2.3.2 stable, Ruby 2.0.0-p247 (2013-06-27).
Apache Phusion Passenger module replaced by Unicorn HTTP server for Rack applications (4.6.3) via Apache2 Proxy module for serving of Redmine. The reason is the bug in the Passenger Iconv usage, that crushes the view of many diffs in repository.
The git binary-to-text converter is based on a 'odcread' application processed by python script for replacing of tabs with spaces.
Grack application is used to have access to git repository via SmartHTTP. Grack is serving by Apache Phusion Passenger (4.0.14) compiled from ruby environment
Josef Templ wrote:Also, can it be done with resource files such as forms? For example, under my local svn
I managed to map BlackBox resource files to the 'Info->Control List' text and compare the two texts.
(Unfortunately, however, the 'Control List' text does not contain all the information of a form,
but this can be seen as a technical detail problem.)
Technically it is possible but you need to improve converter. Now "odcread" do not supporting forms 'odc'. Peter Kushnir
have made some alternative converter, but it is not returning text in standard output. Instead of that converted info is stored inside odc document. I think, we can continue developing Peter converter and use it in future instead of "odcread". However the problem is that TextView have GUI dependence, so it is difficult to use in server (I have tried
already).