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Re: Tracking OpenOffice files/other compressed files with Git

From
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date
Sep 9, 2008, 08:18 UTC
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<20080909081808.GA22697@glandium.org>
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On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 07:19:55AM +0100, Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se> wrote:
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> 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/
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  1. Peter KreftingSep 9, 2008
  2. Johannes SixtSep 9, 2008
  3. SergioSep 9, 2008
  4. Michael J GruberSep 9, 2008
  5. Johannes SixtSep 9, 2008
  6. Sergio CallegariSep 9, 2008
  7. Johannes SixtSep 9, 2008
  8. Mike HommeySep 9, 2008
  9. Matthieu MoySep 9, 2008

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