Hi David, I've never heard about such feature in LibreOffice. Thank you for letting me know.
I don't really see myself using the feature since I'd have to remember it. I'm used to store all sort of stuff / binary files in git. My rule of thumb is that if the file is bellow 10M, just add/commit it. Is it proper way of using git? No. Does it work? Yes ;-). I think that the difference between us is that I'm used to use git for everything and you aren't which means neither you or I are correct ;-). Kind regards, Adam ---------- Původní e-mail ---------- Od: David Myers <david.myers.24...@gmail.com> Komu: Adam <adam.ra...@seznam.cz> Datum: 7. 10. 2020 10:05:28 Předmět: Re: Version controlled (git) Maildir generated by Dovecot > Hello Adam, > > thanks for the reply. Sounds fair enough to me. I hadn't thought about that > last benefit of git. I haven't deleted anything off my pc for years ... still > got HDD from 15 years ago with 'something' on them ? > > Sorry this is going to go off topic somewhat .... (ok, I've just read it > again... its gone off topic a lot... again, apologies for that) > > > One more question, if you are using exclusively LibreOffice, I understand it > has a mode where it will separate the file into its constituent flat, text XML > files (style, contents, formatting etc), all of which can then be stored in > git > with all the advantages that privides, no binary files needed. Do you use this > functionality ? I haven't done this so I don't know how it impacts the work > flow > for a user, or how it will integrate into a git workflow, but would be > interested to hear a user experience. I just use the inbuilt 'versioning' that > is available within libreoffice (much better than multiple copies of the same > file with just a few changes). > > Hopefully my last set of 'novice questions' ;) > > thanks in advance. > > David > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 10:41 AM Adam <adam.ra...@seznam.cz> wrote: > Hi David, > > Please find answers bellow. > > Kind regards, > Adam > > ---------- Původní e-mail ---------- > Od: David Myers <david.myers.24...@gmail.com> > Komu: Adam <adam.ra...@seznam.cz>, Dovecot Mailing List <dovecot@dovecot.org> > Datum: 7. 10. 2020 8:44:28 > Předmět: Re: Version controlled (git) Maildir generated by Dovecot > Hello Adam, and the dovecot list > > > Just a question, I hate to pollute the thread, so feel free to push these > > questions into a new thread if deemed necessary. So as you can guess I'm a > > bit > > of a newb here, so rather obvious questions are about to arrive.... > > > > As you are using GIT for your archive (which is a cool idea by the way) I'm > > sure you are well aware that not all files types play nicely with version > > control, my question therefore is : How do you plan to handle attachments ? > > I use git for everything including for example LibreOffice / Word documents. > Git works just fine with binary files. You can't use text tools like "git > diff" but... it works. > > > Also, although I appreciate the idea of using git, emails generally don't > > 'change', but I guess that also depends on how you are storing them (single > > email with links to previous / next ... etc, or as a single big file for > > each > > specific thread). Although this is hitting my limits of understanding for > > how > > dovecot works, so I probably need educating on this (a pointer to the docs > > would > > be good). > > As I mentioned in the first e-mail, I configured Dovecot to use Maildir > format -> each e-mail is a single text file. Mail body + attachment(s) are in > the same file, attachment(s) are Base64 encoded. > > > You seem concerned regarding the files that you are ignoring that you will > > need > > to 'recreate them', so why not do a complete git add . prior to adding them > > into > > the git ignore, then you have an initial state for those files too. > > But I don't want to store files that can be regenerated. I don't want to > backup stuff, that doesn't have information value. > > > Final thought, what advantage do you envisage by using git as opposed to > > simply > > using a filter to select the files over a certain age, and place them into a > > zipped TAR archive ? Although I guess you could eventually zip the git > > archive > > too, and in the interim it would remain searchable by your users mail > > clients > > whilt in git. > > I like to use git ;-). Tar will work just fine. > > In this use case the only real benefit of git is that it never forgets. > Unless I delete whole .git directory, I can make a mistake, delete some > e-mails (files), commit changes and rollback. I can't rollback if I delete > tar archive. > > > Thanks in advance, and apologies once again for polluting your question > > with my > > own.
