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Bug 686887 - Dia does not play nicely with revision control systems
Dia does not play nicely with revision control systems
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: dia
Classification: Other
Component: general
0.97.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
: ---
Assigned To: Dia maintainers
Dia maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-10-25 20:33 UTC by Karl O. Pinc
Modified: 2019-03-20 11:55 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Entity relationship diagram of baboon demography tables. (195.48 KB, application/x-dia-diagram)
2012-10-25 20:33 UTC, Karl O. Pinc 		Details

Description Karl O. Pinc 2012-10-25 20:33:03 UTC 
Created attachment 227306 [details]
Entity relationship diagram of baboon demography tables.

Hi,

Dia 0.97.1

Especially when objects are grouped, a simple change to 1 character of text can result in hundreds of lines of diff between the old dia file and the new dia file.  This clutters up revision control systems (git/subversion/whatever), and make it particularly hard to scan the diff for the exact changes made.

Steps to reproduce:

1) Take a reasonably sized diagram.  (See attached.  Other examples can be found at, e.g., http://papio.biology.duke.edu/repos/babase/doc/diagrams/.)

2) Ungroup objects so as to be able to change some text using the text edit tool.

3) Change a character of text.

4) Regroup objects.

5) Save diagram, uncompressed, with a new name.

6) Use diff to generate a patch.
Comment 1 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2019-03-20 11:55:31 UTC 
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