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git repo in a single file

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EWEnrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
Date
Mar 17, 2012, 15:54 UTC
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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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