> On Sep 4, 2015, at 4:01 AM, Mike Evans <mi...@saxicola.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 04 Sep 2015 11:48:16 +0200
> Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> 
>> I never new something as a master document existed in libreoffice. I'm 
>> learning a lot from this 
>> thread :)
>> 
>> Other than the concerns Tommy Trussell already mentioned I worry about 
>> merging.
>> 
>> Can you run this test:
>> 1. make two branches
>> 2. Make independent changes in both branches
>> 3. merge from one branch to the other
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Geert
> 
> This breaks things.
> 
> My simple test:
> git checkout -b 1
> edit
> git ci -a
> git checkout master
> git checkout -b 2
> edit
> git ci -a
> 
> git merge 1
> 
> warning: Cannot merge binary files: ch_loans.odt (HEAD vs. 1)
> Auto-merging ch_loans.odt
> CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in ch_loans.odt
> Automatic merge failed; fix conflicts and then commit the result.
> 
> Note the cannot merge part.
> 
> I guess that resolves that then.  No to LibreOffice docs, or I guess any 
> non-plain text file format.  
> 
> I know we could unzip the odt files to get the plain text content and work 
> with that but I'm it's not really a practical solution is it?

I think the answer to that was already provided: Tell LibreOffice to save the 
files as .fodt.

Regards,
John Ralls


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