[vox-tech] collaborative data storage (of excel files)

[Henry House]

On 2008-01-15, wrote Dylan Beaudette:
> On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Stuart Turner wrote:
> > OK, how about using Open Document Format (ODF) within OpenOffice
> > (OpenOffice spreadsheet application Calc and their ".ods" format). These
> > are XML (text files) that can deal with CVS (and Subversion) better than
> > binaries and for those who want the binary Microsoft "loyalty" format
> > (.xls) at the end of the game can do so easily via a conversion to Excel.
> >
> > ~ Stuart
> 
> Would this still work despite the fact that the ODF container is gzipped?

It would not work as intended unless you expanded the container archive
prior to adding it to revision control (and again after every
modification).

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