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  • petersr@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzLPT Do it.
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    7 months ago

    Let me tell you something. I cannot tell you what company, but I have been tasked with putting Excel files in git “because they are just zip archives with xml” and it is just a disaster. Everytime you save the document it will save certain parts of the xml code in arbitrary ways (like each image is in a list and the order of that list is random everytime), some metadata is re-written everytime like time of last modified and finally all the xml files are one single line. The git diffs are complete useless and noisy and just looking at the Excel file will cause git to consider it updated. So sure, you can use git to snapshot you Office documents… But just don’t.






  • petersr@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzthe fuckgraph
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    11 months ago

    And that’s even more interesting. As someone who was not part of any of the graph in high school / college, how would a big link of chains play out in real time?

    Like “The Mary and Tom met at a party. Next week Tom stumbled into Lucy by the lockers…”

    I find it hard to imagine.