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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