LibreOffice: How to save in Git friendly format?
Is there a way in which I can tell LibreOffice to save in a Git friendly format?
You can save your files as flat XML (fodt
) instead of odt
:
If a document is saved as
.fodt
file it keeps the same data the.odt
file would contain. Only that this time the data is represented as human-readable text (which makes the work much easier for the version control system) and not compressed. So saving a document as flat XML makes it possible to keep server space requirements and network load low at the relatively low cost of wasting a few kilobytes on the local hard disks.
Source LibreOffice and Version control
Further Reading
- .odt vs .fodt: which is most space effective for git repositories?
- Versioning of OpenOffice/LibreOffice documents using git