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From: Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Tracking OpenOffice files/other compressed files with Git
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 07:19:55 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0809090715520.19359@ds9.cixit.se> (raw)

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?


Alternatively, does anyone know if it is possible to set OpenOffice not
to use compression for a saved document? If it was uncompressed text, I
would think Git's delta compression would fare better.

-- 
\\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/

             reply	other threads:[~2008-09-09  6:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-09  6:19 Peter Krefting [this message]
2008-09-09  7:02 ` Tracking OpenOffice files/other compressed files with Git 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
2008-09-09  8:34 ` Matthieu Moy

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