[discuss] Revision History

2005-11-11 Thread Rigel
One thing I noticed missing recently is a revision history for OpenOffice documents. This may seem kind of ridiculous, but sometimes people work for a long time on some documents, and they may at some point think. ' "OMG! I wish I had that back!" *sigh* '... Perhaps a Revision History could be one

Re: [discuss] Revision History

2005-11-12 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 06:35:16 -, Rigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One thing I noticed missing recently is a revision history for OpenOffice documents. This may seem kind of ridiculous, but sometimes people work for a long time on some documents, and they may at some point think. ' "OMG! I

Re: [discuss] Revision History

2005-11-12 Thread mark
Rigel wrote: One thing I noticed missing recently is a revision history for OpenOffice documents. This may seem kind of ridiculous, but sometimes people work for a long time on some documents, and they may at some point think. ' "OMG! I wish I had that back!" *sigh* '... Perhaps a Revision Histo

Re: [discuss] Revision History

2005-11-12 Thread Henrik Sundberg
2005/11/12, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > What would be more reasonable would be a plug-in interface to a CM tool, > such as CVS, or Subversion. I agree. I don't want my documents to grow indefinitely, And I don't want to export all versions of my documents. But can Subversion handle OpenDocument

Re: [discuss] Revision History

2005-11-12 Thread mark
Henrik Sundberg wrote: 2005/11/12, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: What would be more reasonable would be a plug-in interface to a CM tool, such as CVS, or Subversion. I agree. I don't want my documents to grow indefinitely, And I don't want to export all versions of my documents. But can Subversio

Re: [discuss] Revision History

2005-11-12 Thread Mathias Bauer
Henrik Sundberg wrote: > 2005/11/12, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Is it possible to save in an uncompressed XML format? > > Is this the only solution? Being forced to check in directory trees > for each document seems cumbersome. You can save OOo documents into one single XML file. Together wit

Re: [discuss] Revision History

2005-11-13 Thread Henrik Sundberg
Thanks for all this info Mathias! I think "File-Compare Documents" and binary files in my VCS will suit me best. I just tested "File-Compare Documents". It didn't notice differences in tables. Is it just meant for bread text? /$ 2005/11/13, Mathias Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Henrik Sundberg wrot

Re: [discuss] Revision History

2005-11-15 Thread Mathias Bauer
Henrik Sundberg wrote: > Thanks for all this info Mathias! > I think "File-Compare Documents" and binary files in my VCS will suit me best. > I just tested "File-Compare Documents". It didn't notice differences > in tables. Is it just meant for bread text? I don't know exactly. It's also possible

Re: [discuss] Revision History

2005-11-19 Thread Rigel
Why are we looking for ways to reduce file size? Why would we want to save the whole file, and not just the changes to that file? It seems some very powerful wiki software out there, has achieved this quite nicely. I think by looking for ways to get around having to re-engineer part of the version