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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (30 children)

docx files are actually zip archives with xml in them

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (23 children)

Doesn't matter, to git they are still binary files, which means it'll check in each revision as an entirely new copy.

Yes, you might only see the most recent one in your working directory, but under the hood, all the other ones are still there in the repo.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Someone could probably build a tool which sits in between you and Git, which unzips the file before committing and after pulling, so Git sees the raw xml file, but you always see the zipped docx.

edit: never mind. Just read @[email protected]'s comment explaining why this is a bad idea.

[–] petersr 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah, I made such a tool - and kept polishing edge cases until I gave up. So just wanted to warn everyone.

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