> 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.

Should be.  Most LibreOffice functions can be automated.

Tim