To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=111920 Issue #|111920 Summary|Add an option to save uncompressed odt for version con |trol (SVN,git,...) Component|Word processor Version|OOo 3.2.1 RC2 Platform|All URL| OS/Version|All Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|ENHANCEMENT Priority|P3 Subcomponent|save-export Assigned to|writerneedsconfirm Reported by|peterpall
------- Additional comments from peterp...@openoffice.org Sat May 29 07:11:17 +0000 2010 ------- Version control (VC) systems like Subversion, Git and the old CVS are extremely practical programs that provide an unlimited undo function for documents. They also allow to reconstruct a detailed timeline of changes inside a document which comes in handy for documentation purposes in big development projects. All VC systems do so by saving the differences between the current and the last version of a document each time the user requests to remember that version. Some VC tools like svn can even deal with binary (non text) data in a relatively efficient way. The issue now is that if compressed data is kept under version control even if only one word in a document is changed big parts or even all of the compressed data tends to change. Which means that when writing a 600-page-document including 200 Megabytes of pictures and committing the data once every hour on a 10-hour-workday a compressed odt document might eat up 2 Gigabytes of server place each day. An uncompressed document on the other hand occupies only the place needed to store the text lines that actually have changed instead. Since these few kilobytes will be compressed by most VC tools whilst the compressed document won't get substantially shorter by being compressed again by the VC tool the user might end up with a even bigger difference between compressed and uncompressed document. There already is a extension to OOo that adds a GUI to control subversion from Openoffice.org without addressing this issue. A second extension I know allows to keep a single odt document in its own subversion repository (normally a whole development project is kept in a repository). But until now as far as I know openoffice lacks a solution for this problem. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@sw.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sw.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
