Re: [git-users] Do you use Git for co-working others than development ?

2014-12-29 Thread Charles Manning
Even if you don't get textual diffs, merely keeping a history is a good start to preserving documents. And, btw, XML is not really any better than binary for doc storage because you generally cannot merge it One of the reasons I hate those IDEs that store project files in XLM. On Tue, Dec 30,

Re: [git-users] Do you use Git for co-working others than development ?

2014-12-29 Thread Maurizio Vitale
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Florian Coste wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you for your answer ;) Other people said me yesterday on Git irc > channel that .odt files are binary, and Git will not handle them correctly. > I don't know DocBook XML, or Markdown, but after some research, I don't > thin

Re: [git-users] Do you use Git for co-working others than development ?

2014-12-23 Thread Florian Coste
Hello, Thank you for your answer ;) Other people said me yesterday on Git irc channel that .odt files are binary, and Git will not handle them correctly. I don't know DocBook XML, or Markdown, but after some research, I don't think this format will be easy for me to use it. Others people advised

Re: [git-users] Do you use Git for co-working others than development ?

2014-12-23 Thread Gergely Polonkai
Hello, .odt files (I assume you are talking about OpenOffice documents) are binary, and as such, Git doesn't handle them very well. If you want to manage such documents in Git, you must use a textual format, such as DocBook XML or Markdown. Now that we are here, to answer your other questions, ye

[git-users] Do you use Git for co-working others than development ?

2014-12-23 Thread Florian Coste
Hi, I'm a recently user of Git. I think it's a great tool for development project ;) I've already used it on university project, but, in practise, we've worked without it, badly... Recently I started to read documentation because I wanted to join open source projects on Github. And I had one