From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
To: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Tracking OpenOffice files/other compressed files with Git
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:18:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080909081808.GA22697@glandium.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0809090715520.19359@ds9.cixit.se>
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 07:19:55AM +0100, Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I find myself tracking OpenOffice files every now and then. Mostly to
> synchronise to be able to edit documents in multiple locations, less
> for the actual history.
>
> I notice, however, that the Git history tend to grow quite a bit,
> especially for larger documents (I have a 175 kilobyte spredsheet that
> has a git database of about 8 megabytes).
>
> Since OpenOffice doucuments are just zipped xml files, I wondered how
> difficult it would be to create some hooks/hack git to track the files
> inside the archives instead?
It could be worth having a generic tool that would do similar things
to what pristine-tar[1] does.
Mike
1. http://joey.kitenet.net/code/pristine-tar/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-09 8:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-09 6:19 Tracking OpenOffice files/other compressed files with Git Peter Krefting
2008-09-09 7:02 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-09-09 9:02 ` Sergio
2008-09-09 10:28 ` Michael J Gruber
2008-09-09 10:57 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-09-09 11:07 ` Sergio Callegari
2008-09-09 11:22 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-09-09 8:18 ` Mike Hommey [this message]
2008-09-09 8:34 ` Matthieu Moy
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