On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 06:32:11PM -0600, Michael Torrie wrote:
> While we're on the subject of SCM in general, does anyone have a 
> solution for storing OpenDocument files in SCM?  For example, odt, odc, 
> etc?  Normally these are just treated as binary files, which is kind of 
> silly since they are just xml files in a zip file.  If the SCM could 
> somehow open them, then we could do all kinds of cool diff and patchset 
> stuff with the various xml files.  Currently since they are treated as 
> binary files, SCMs like Subversion commit new copies of the file each 
> time, rather than track changes.
> 
> Can Git deal with these files?  What about a plugin for SVN?

Here are some tools that can be used with mercurial or git to handle
diffing OpenDocument files:

http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/opendocument/

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