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From: Vincent van Ravesteijn <vfr@lyx.org>
Subject: Re: git repo in a single file
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:13:01 +0100
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Op 17-3-2012 16:54, Enrico Weigelt schreef:
> Hi folks,
>
>
> 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.
>
> IMHO, zip (without compression) could even serve as container.
>
> What do you think about this idea ?
>
>
> cu
We have had the same idea before to implement this for our software.

Vincent