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Re:We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s... by Xylakant on Thursday June 16, 2022 @02:16AM (#31762939)
.docx files are archives of xml-files. No one wants to write that by hand.

Or, in more words: The format of the files is just the representation on disk - it’s not directly connected to how the files are generated or edited. XML files can be written by hand with suitable editor support.

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Re:We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s... by onion2k on Thursday June 16, 2022 @02:47AM (#31763139)
I think we have different ideas of what "written by hand" means. Someone making a Word doc is not writing XML by hand.
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