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How come Excel works fine with source control? It is a binary blob and diff and merge are done with Excel itself, not the version control's merge and diff (whic
by mynegation 14y ago
How come Excel works fine with source control? It is a binary blob and diff and merge are done with Excel itself, not the version control's merge and diff (which may or may not be what you want).
What are those collaboration tools for Excel? This is an honest question: all I see is some spreadsheet on shared drive or Sharepoint with some ad hoc process around editing, making sure the need for the merge is avoided.
- debacle 14y agoExcel files are simply zip files with XML in them.
- lparry 14y agoWhat version control system will let you see the changes between the contents of two zip files again?
- emmelaich 14y agoWith Git and Svn you can specify the diff to use, so you can use something like oodiff if you are versioning OpenOffice files. Something to diff zips of xml almost certainly exists and could be used in the same manner. Now, patch is another thing ...
- debacle 14y agoTortoiseSVN will diff OO and MS Office files out of the box.