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Using Git hooks to version-control Excel VBA Code

by bjoerns on 12/1/17, 12:27 PM with 5 comments

• by WorldMaker on 12/4/17, 4:50 PM

  This is somewhat similar to things that I've done to source control Word DOCX files and similar archives with a tool I wrote called musdex [1].

  It's built to be a much more generic approach to handling the top level webhook operations, so you could even potentially write an oletools-based plugin (Handler) for it and share the musdex infrastructure. (Built-in Handler is for ZIP files, which works for the more recent Office/OpenOffice formats. I wrote a custom Handler for Inform 7 files, and I started but never finished a Handler for deconstructing/reconstructing SQLite DBs for version control.)

  [1] https://github.com/WorldMaker/musdex

• by bgdkbtv on 12/4/17, 12:03 PM

  Awesome to see someone using GitLab in the wild! Is it the free version or self hosted?

• by Herald_MJ on 12/4/17, 10:50 AM

  Not relevant to article content, but: please don't use Javascript to hijack my scrolling like this page does.