On 20 Nov 2015, at 2:25, Mark Brown [via bibdesk users] wrote:

> Perhaps the large git diff is due to git treating the .bib as binary? 
> I don't see much benefit in my workflow for using git on bib desk, so 
> I am not sure if it does this or not, but for small changes in Java 
> apps I write, the git diff can be huge on .jar files
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No, git treats the bib file as the text file that it is.


> On Thursday, November 19, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
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>>> On Nov 19, 2015, at 17:59, Maxwell, Adam R <adam.maxw...@pnnl.gov 
>>> (mailto:adam.maxw...@pnnl.gov)> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Nov 19, 2015, at 02:44, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com 
>>>> (mailto:cmhof...@gmail.com)> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> For now this is just for testing purposes. I am not sure what to do 
>>>> with this, whether to advertise this on the Wiki, integrate this as 
>>>> an actual pref (that could be dangerous), or remove it later.
>>>
>>> Just spitballing, but the only safe way I see to make it an actual 
>>> pref is by adding a new field type (like Bdsk-Path-n) and doing a 
>>> conversion process when opening and saving.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Adam
>>
>> Why? I don’t get that. The data would be forward compatible, and 
>> also be compatible between the situation with or without the option. 
>> The data will be of the same format, it’s just how many versions of 
>> the file will be saved in the dictionary. So the relative path would 
>> always be saved, while the alias will only be saved when the option 
>> is not set. If you’d think saving just the relative path is too 
>> fragile, than adding a new field type would not solve anything, 
>> because that would be the exact same. BTW, the only reason this would 
>> not be backward compatible is because the data without alias was 
>> explicitly rejected previously, not because the code could not have 
>> handled it.
>>
>> Christiaan
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