From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karl Voit Subject: OT: using ZIP based files with git (was: How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:20:47 +0100 Message-ID: <2013-01-23T11-19-08@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> References: <87a9s0apj1.fsf@googlemail.com> Reply-To: news1142@Karl-Voit.at Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59994) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TxxS3-0006Zk-84 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 05:21:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TxxS1-0005cv-P1 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 05:21:03 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:45897) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TxxS1-0005ci-II for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 05:21:01 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TxxSH-0002rV-0a for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:21:17 +0100 Received: from mail.michael-prokop.at ([88.198.6.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:21:17 +0100 Received: from news1142 by mail.michael-prokop.at with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:21:17 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org * M wrote: > > it is not about programming and it is not about plain text files, but MS > Office (Word) files.. > > Dropbox is not an option, maybe a document management system (DMS) with > versioning, but it is not in place yet. I do not have experience by myself but I've read that other people are using the git versioning system with ZIP-based file formats (like docx) as well: http://tante.cc/2010/06/23/managing-zip-based-file-formats-in-git/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8001663/can-git-treat-zip-files-as-directories-and-files-inside-the-zip-as-blobs http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3298525/version-control-for-docx-and-pdf -- Karl Voit