putting calendar and address book into version control

[Alexander Belchenko]

Daniel Mark Watkins пишет:
> Hi David,
> 
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:02:05 +0700
> "David Garamond" <davidgaramond at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Anyone putting .ics (vCalendar) and .vcf (vCard) files into version
>> control? They are normal text files and thus easily diff-able, but the
>> problem is some clients (like KDE's Kontact/Korganizer) touches and/or
>> (re)sort entries in the files, making the diff too large and merge
>> difficult. Haven't found a more suitable client program, I'm thinking
>> of writing some scripts to post-process and sort the entries before
>> commit. Or perhaps there are better calendar/addressbook text formats
>> out there? Suggestions welcome.
> At some point today, I'm going to sit down with Aaron Bentley and we'll
> start talking about a plan for per-file pluggable merge algorithms.
> There's not really a timeframe on this yet, but once this support
> exists then a merge algorithm to remove this problem could be written.

Pluggable diff algorithm is also needed. And may be pluggable status?

> 
> Not especially helpful in the short term, but this will become much
> easier in the medium- to long-term.
> 
> 
> Dan