{"thread":{"id":"29981","subject":"git repo in a single file","startedAt":"2012-03-17T15:54:45Z","lastAt":"2012-03-17T16:48:19Z","messageCount":3,"participants":["Enrico Weigelt","Vincent van Ravesteijn","Jakub Narebski"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"187160","messageId":"20120317155445.GA18712@mailgate.onlinehome-server.info","threadId":"29981","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"git repo in a single file","fromName":"Enrico Weigelt","fromEmail":"weigelt@metux.de","sentAt":"2012-03-17T15:54:45Z","receivedAt":"2012-03-17T15:54:45Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"weigelt@metux.de","avatar":null},"body":"\nHi folks,\n\n\nin several discussion with people eg. on office software fronts,\nI've seen the value of having an git repo in one file. For example,\nan office document, internally consisting of several files (like\nODF) could be put into an git repo instead of zip. That would\ngive a good basis for things like versioning, etc.\n\nIMHO, zip (without compression) could even serve as container.\n\nWhat do you think about this idea ?\n\n\ncu\n-- \n----------------------------------------------------------------------\n Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/\n\n phone:  +49 36207 519931  email: weigelt@metux.de\n mobile: +49 151 27565287  icq:   210169427         skype: nekrad666\n----------------------------------------------------------------------\n Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme\n----------------------------------------------------------------------\n"},{"id":"187163","messageId":"4F64B80D.4000308@lyx.org","threadId":"29981","inReplyTo":"20120317155445.GA18712@mailgate.onlinehome-server.info","subject":"Re: git repo in a single file","fromName":"Vincent van Ravesteijn","fromEmail":"vfr@lyx.org","sentAt":"2012-03-17T16:13:01Z","receivedAt":"2012-03-17T16:13:01Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"vfr@lyx.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/687868?v=4"},"body":"Op 17-3-2012 16:54, Enrico Weigelt schreef:\n> Hi folks,\n>\n>\n> in several discussion with people eg. on office software fronts,\n> I've seen the value of having an git repo in one file. For example,\n> an office document, internally consisting of several files (like\n> ODF) could be put into an git repo instead of zip. That would\n> give a good basis for things like versioning, etc.\n>\n> IMHO, zip (without compression) could even serve as container.\n>\n> What do you think about this idea ?\n>\n>\n> cu\nWe have had the same idea before to implement this for our software.\n\nVincent\n"},{"id":"187164","messageId":"m3bonvkwda.fsf@localhost.localdomain","threadId":"29981","inReplyTo":"20120317155445.GA18712@mailgate.onlinehome-server.info","subject":"Re: git repo in a single file","fromName":"Jakub Narebski","fromEmail":"jnareb@gmail.com","sentAt":"2012-03-17T16:48:19Z","receivedAt":"2012-03-17T16:48:19Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"jnareb@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2706?v=4"},"body":"Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> writes:\n\n> in several discussion with people eg. on office software fronts,\n> I've seen the value of having an git repo in one file. For example,\n> an office document, internally consisting of several files (like\n> ODF) could be put into an git repo instead of zip. That would\n> give a good basis for things like versioning, etc.\n\nThere is something like that in the form of git-bundle.\nPerhaps it could be (ab)used to what you want.\n\n-- \nJakub Narebski\n"}]}