From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:18:09 GMT
Subject: Re: Tracking OpenOffice files/other compressed files with Git
Message-ID: <20080909081808.GA22697@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0809090715520.19359@ds9.cixit.se>

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 07:19:55AM +0100, Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se> wrote:
> 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/