On Thursday 17 November 2011 19:23:24 Kristopher John Gamrat wrote:
> On Thursday 17 November 2011 01:09:34 pm Timothy Pearson wrote:
> > The biggest issue here is that ODT files are compressed binary blobs, and
> > therefore work rather terribly in version control systems.  Maybe it
> > would work better to automatically create a "HEAD" ODT file from the
> > FODT in the GIT repository that anyone can download/edit, and when it
> > comes time to merge their changes we can open the .odt and export as
> > .fodt prior to commit.
> 
> Possible through a shell script? Would make things easier.

I have something like that for converting documents to pdf, a macro invoked by 
a script shell. Should be easy to adapt.