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Re:ExcelCompare: Command line tool and API for diffing Excel Workbooks on Monday May 09, 2016 @08:03PM (#11664282)

OOC, how much of the complexity for implementing this was getting the data out of the formats, and how much was implementing the diff once you had the data?

Re:Ask HN: Would you use a “git for data”? on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @06:00PM (#11538073)

Yeah, except that this is not really built into Git. You can't get detailed differences or merge differences in these large files. They are basically opaque blobs as far as Git is concerned.

Re:Ask HN: Would you use a “git for data”? on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @05:53PM (#11538031)

Any kind. JSON or XML could be input. Or things like SQL or protobufs.

Git itself doesn't work well for large-scale data (https://help.github.com/articles/what-is-my-disk-quota/). I'm thinking terabyte or petabyte datasets.

Ask HN: Would you use a “git for data”?

Posted by sha1-1b141e on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @05:38PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Dear HN:Let's say there was a thing that gave you the full git workflow (branch, sync, push, pull, merge, revert, etc) efficiently for large-scale structured data.Would such a thing be valuable? Would you use it? Would you pay for it?Asking for a friend.

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