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* git repo in a single file
@ 2012-03-17 15:54 Enrico Weigelt
  2012-03-17 16:13 ` Vincent van Ravesteijn
  2012-03-17 16:48 ` Jakub Narebski
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Enrico Weigelt @ 2012-03-17 15:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git


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
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* Re: git repo in a single file
  2012-03-17 15:54 git repo in a single file Enrico Weigelt
@ 2012-03-17 16:13 ` Vincent van Ravesteijn
  2012-03-17 16:48 ` Jakub Narebski
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Vincent van Ravesteijn @ 2012-03-17 16:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git

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

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* Re: git repo in a single file
  2012-03-17 15:54 git repo in a single file Enrico Weigelt
  2012-03-17 16:13 ` Vincent van Ravesteijn
@ 2012-03-17 16:48 ` Jakub Narebski
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jakub Narebski @ 2012-03-17 16:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Enrico Weigelt; +Cc: git

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

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