Re: [PLUG] Revision Control for the Rest of Us

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> On 11/15/2017 08:30 PM, brent timothy saner wrote:
> > On 11/14/2017 10:56 PM, JP Vossen wrote:
> > > Proposed for next week at PLUG West:
> > >
> > > Revision Control for the Rest of Us *
> > > * SysAdmins, scripters and anyone who is not a full-time Real 
> > > Programmer™
> > >
> > > If you use a computer, you probably do something that revision control
> > > can help with.  If you are a system administrator or scripter, you
> > > *should* be using a revision control tool.  But which one?  Git
> > > unquestionably won the war, and also...Github and GitLab.  But is Git
> > > the right tool for you?
> > >
> > > I'm going to update and tweak some things between now and next week, but
> > > basic spoiler alert:
> > > https://www.jpsdomain.org/public/Revision_Control_for_the_Rest_of_Us.pdf. 
> >
> > just a minor point of note:
> >
> > ODF is XML-based! it's plaintext! :) the benefits you'd *get* from a
> > diffing VCS are less than, say, a python script, but it isn't a binary
> > format and still lets you roll between different revisions of the doc
> > without entirely different blobs. (OOXML, despite the name, however, is
> > indeed a binary format - it's zipped XML.)
> >
> > (when discussing the binary stuff, i'd also mention these:
> > https://www.perforce.com/blog/storing-large-binary-files-in-git-repositories 
> >
> > )

OpenOffice/LibreOffice docs are also zipped up XML and stuff.  You can
unzip them and do stuff, but they don't work well in a VCS.  Asciidoc,
Markdown, <wiki mark-up, mark-down of your choice> for the win.
Later,
JP
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