https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70625
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 70625
Assignee: [email protected]
Summary: Add --cat parameter to make git diffs pretty
Severity: normal
Classification: Unclassified
OS: All
Reporter: [email protected]
Hardware: Other
Status: NEW
Version: 4.2.0.0.alpha0+ Master
Component: Libreoffice
Product: LibreOffice
I just read:
http://git-scm.com/book/ch7-2.html (search for odt)
And realized we could become a much more useful part of the git ecosystem if we
had a simple '--cat' mode that dumped most (if not all) formats as flat-odf to
allow easier diffing (and logging?)
What we need (instead of that embarassing script) is something that handles doc
and ODF and spreadsheets etc. and dumps text so:
loffice --cat <filename> | less
We will inevitably need to use a /tmp file and adapt the existing --convert-to
txt code to do this easily, but - it'd be great to have that built-in.
Code pointers:
desktop/source/app/cmdlineargs.cxx
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/desktop/source/app/cmdlinehelp.cxx#n50
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/desktop/source/app/cmdlineargs.cxx
checkout GetConversionList:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/desktop/source/app/app.cxx#n2443
Of course - the slight downer is that the factory process, and the
command-line-arg parsing piece are separated by a process / factory barrier -
so it's possible we'd need to add a round-trip reply that returns the /tmp
filename and then cat that.
Thanks for poking !
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