Replacing Docbook
Geert Janssens
geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Fri Aug 28 16:00:15 EDT 2015
On Friday 28 August 2015 15:53:17 Derek Atkins wrote:
> I suspect another issue with using ODT instead of DocBook is that we'd
> have a single file for the whole document, versus a separate file for
> each chapter. This means that multiple people working in different
> sections may very easily collide with each other through git, whereas
> docbook changes would merge more cleanly.
>
> -derek
>
If the patches libreoffice generates were less cluttered that would probably not be a
problem. Git is pretty good at merging non-conflicting patches (with which I mean
patches that don't have overlapping changes) even on single files.
The clutter breaks that git feature though.
Sigh...
Geert
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