Brandon Stout wrote:
> If you don't need all the features, you can simply use OpenOffice's 
> track changes feature.  It's a sort of versioning system built right 
> into the file itself.  Once the document owner approves changes, the 
> change history gets lost, but it's a simple way to control document 
> revisions.

Sure but that's not what we're talking about here.  Basically I want to 
store my entire home directory in some kind of SCM, so I can a) easily 
backup and b) easily restore to a new machine.  Or keep my files in sync 
between my 3 main computers.  SCM would seem to be a good idea for such 
an application.  Right now SCMs of any kind won't efficiently store 
OpenDocument files (many of which are going to be changing frequently).

Since OD files are really encoded text under the hood, SCMs should be 
able to identify such files and generate efficient patchsets against them.

OO.org may have built-in revision control, but that falls well outside 
the scope of what I'd ultimately like to do.

Michael


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