Using Git for versioning of Word (doc/docx) documents

Wed, 24 Jun 2015 16:06:00 +0200

In too many projects I saw a chaos to store different versions of documents (in case these documents are edited over the time and older versions were kept for later analysis).

Each colleague has an own understanding how to name documents and how to add information about the status/version of the document. So it is not seldom to see timestamps as pre- or suffixes, user and user-acronyms as suffixes, and version numbers as suffixes. It gets really interesting if multiple users co-work on the same document and introduce their own naming guideline. After a few versions you are completely lost to know which document is the most recent version. Sometimes you can hope that sorting for timestamps of OS (Date modified) in the File Explorer leads you to the right one. But too often somebody opens a documents and changes by coincidence something inside (e.g. auto fields, like dates) and confirms the save question during closing with Yes. Then you have an older version with a newer timestamp.

Github Project Wiki: separate page filename from page title

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 07:45:00 +0100

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In a former version of a project wiki on Github was a separation between the page filename and page title. So we build up our Wiki in a manner, that some well defined prefixes in the filename describe the overall context of the particular page.

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Using Git for versioning of Word (doc/docx) documents

Github Project Wiki: separate page filename from page title

Starting Point