Re: [libreoffice-users] RFE: HTML compatibility option "Do not modify metadata when saving"

[Robert Holtzman]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 08:58:38PM +0300, Stas Fomin wrote:
> <div><pre>Hello!<br /><br />LibreOffice will be very useful<br />in 
> collaborative text editing <br />if <br />* document in plain HTML format 
> will be saved in the versioned storage (Subversion/CVS/&hellip; repository) 
> and <br />* with automatic merging of changes made by different people.<br 
> /><br />But now every merge operation produces at least one conflict: it's a 
> conflict <br />in &lt;meta&gt; tags:<br />&lt;meta name="GENERATOR"&gt; - 
> some people use Linux, some people use Windows<br />&lt;meta 
> name="CHANGED"&gt; - changed on every document save operation, so automatic 
> <br />merge is not possible. <br /><br />Furthermore, when CVS or Subversion 
> client discovers <br />conflicts, it adds conflict markers like 
> '&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt; 1.1 .... ====== ..... &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; <br />1.2' 
> in the conflict areas, so document could not be opened more as valid HTML, 
> <br />because the HTML header is the conflict area.<br /><br />I know there 
> is a check-box named "Apply user data" 
 in document properties (File/Proper
> ties), and <br />if I uncheck it before saving, &lt;meta name="CHANGED"&gt; 
> isn't overwritten on every <br />save and my personal data isn't written into 
> the document, but:<br />1) &lt;meta name="GENERATOR"&gt; is _still_ 
> overwritten on every save;<br />2) I need to uncheck "Apply user data" every 
> time opening the document.<br /><br />I also know that there is an option 
> "Remove personal data on save" in security <br />settings, but it also 
> doesn't help: &lt;meta name="CHANGED"&gt; is cleared, but &lt;meta <br 
> />name="CREATED"&gt; is always overwritten by current time (WTF???!!), and 
> &lt;meta <br />name="GENERATOR"&gt; is also still overwritten. <br />So this 
> also produces conflicts.<br /><br />I suggest you to add an HTML 
> compatibility option "Do not modify metadata when <br />saving" or something 
> like that. This will be very useful for people <br />who want organize a 
> convenient versioned storage for text documents.<br /><br />Thanks in 
> advance.<br /><br />  Sincerely, Sta
 s Fomin</pre></div>

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