Bug 91098 - SCM friendly file format
Summary: SCM friendly file format
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 85660
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Reported: 2015-05-05 17:12 UTC by Ed Braaten
Modified: 2023-04-08 07:28 UTC (History)
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Panley-Munson ACM paper on version-aware file format (388.35 KB, application/pdf)
2015-05-05 17:12 UTC, Ed Braaten 		Details
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Description Ed Braaten 2015-05-05 17:12:08 UTC 
Created attachment 115362 [details]
Panley-Munson ACM paper on version-aware file format

LibreOffice Writer doesn't offer a Source Code Management (SCM) friendly file format for saving documents.  Popular SCM's such as git, svn, etc. see the current file formats as binary blobs and therefore can't do simple text diffs of changes between document revisions.  Meenu Pandey and Ethan V. Munson have published an ACM paper proposing a version-aware LibreOffice document format, however this solution doesn't solve the problem of storing documents in an SCM-friendly format which is being asked for in this enhancement request.
Comment 1 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2015-05-05 19:37:11 UTC 
Very interesting paper! Thank you very much.
Comment 2 David Tardon 2015-05-05 20:35:43 UTC 
There is Flat ODF.
Comment 3 David Juran 2015-05-06 07:24:56 UTC 
Not having read the paper, in my opinion, the Flat ODF format is still not a perfect fit. Among other issues, it is rather "chatty" with e.g. a time-stamp embedded in every save which makes diff:in and merging challenging.

In my opinion, we should keep this RFE open to decide what to do with it. Modifications to the Flat ODF? A new format? Or something entirely different...
Comment 4 David Tardon 2015-05-11 07:02:43 UTC 
A new libreoffice-specific document format is the last thing we want.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 88298 ***
Comment 5 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-04-08 07:28:02 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 85660 ***