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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by toomuchtodo on Thursday November 30, 2017 @07:26PM (#15820960)
Sounds like Excel needs a git extension!
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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by yosyp on Thursday November 30, 2017 @08:12PM (#15821180)
A quick google search shows some people are already working on that, including https://www.pathio.com
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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by uridium on Friday December 01, 2017 @02:57AM (#15822599)
Schematiq - https://www.schematiq.com also handles source control for spreadsheet and a lot more. The platform is about making sheets enterprise grade applications - regression, testing, CI etc and introduces new features to simplify spreadsheet logic.
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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by ccozan on Friday December 01, 2017 @07:04AM (#15823341)
I remember I wrote not long ago a VB Macro for Excel, where all the VB code inside was imported/exported, git pull/commit+push, etc, all of a button push.

It became an instant hit in that company and I short of a medal :).

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Re:Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Co... by fzumstein on Friday December 01, 2017 @07:21AM (#15823394)
Note that Pathio has been relaunched as https://www.xltrail.com - it supports the standard Git workflow and every Git system (GitHub, Bitbucket, Gitlab etc.).
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