From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Hommey Subject: Re: Tracking OpenOffice files/other compressed files with Git Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:18:09 +0200 Organization: glandium.org Message-ID: <20080909081808.GA22697@glandium.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Git Mailing List To: Peter Krefting X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 09 10:20:14 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KcySK-00031I-7N for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:20:12 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756453AbYIIISg (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 04:18:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754047AbYIIISf (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 04:18:35 -0400 Received: from vuizook.err.no ([194.24.252.247]:59683 "EHLO vuizook.err.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756504AbYIIISe (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 04:18:34 -0400 Received: from cha92-13-88-165-248-19.fbx.proxad.net ([88.165.248.19] helo=vaio.glandium.org) by vuizook.err.no with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KcyQa-0005wt-Jf; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:18:31 +0200 Received: from mh by vaio.glandium.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KcyQL-0005ud-1G; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:18:09 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-GPG-Fingerprint: A479 A824 265C B2A5 FC54 8D1E DE4B DA2C 54FD 2A58 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mh@glandium.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on vaio.glandium.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-Spam-Status: (score 0.1): No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=disabled version=3.2.3 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 07:19:55AM +0100, Peter Krefting 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/