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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git repo in a single file
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 09:48:19 -0700 (PDT)
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Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> writes:

> in several discussion with people eg. on office software fronts,
> I've seen the value of having an git repo in one file. For example,
> an office document, internally consisting of several files (like
> ODF) could be put into an git repo instead of zip. That would
> give a good basis for things like versioning, etc.

There is something like that in the form of git-bundle.
Perhaps it could be (ab)used to what you want.

-- 
Jakub Narebski