On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 07:19:55AM +0100, Peter Krefting <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
