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Re:Neovim by tinco on Friday February 21, 2014 @03:49PM (#7279327)
It's not, I need the human readable source part, so I can track my work and cooperate in git :) I use LibreOffice for some stuff though.
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Re:Neovim by davidgerard on Friday February 21, 2014 @04:41PM (#7279615)
Versioning of OpenOffice/LibreOffice documents using git: http://blog.riemann.cc/2013/04/23/versioning-of-openoffice-l...
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Re:Neovim by blueblob on Friday February 21, 2014 @08:40PM (#7280620)
That is really cool, thanks for that.
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Re:Neovim by Crito on Friday February 21, 2014 @03:54PM (#7279363)
Aren't modern word processor formats just zipped-up XML files? I suspect it should be a straight-forward matter to get at least LibreOffice and version control cooperating.
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Re:Neovim by TylerE on Friday February 21, 2014 @05:06PM (#7279772)
You are technically correct, but not usefully so. The XML is pretty hairy. A VCS that handles XML semantically (e.g. tag-pair oriented, rather than line-oriented) might have some shot....but, basically, merges are more or less not going to work so it's not really version control, just backups.
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